The Poet’s Herbarium
A watercolor and cut paper collection, inspired by the flowers - and the poems - of Emily Dickinson
Pressed flowers are little acts of devotion - a decision, made in a single moment - that this beauty deserves to last.
Emily Dickinson felt that too. She spent years pressing and labeling hundreds of flowers by hand - quietly, carefully, the way she did everything. She saw what I see: that a bloom holds as much meaning as a poem.
The Poet's Herbarium is my homage to her. Ten original watercolor and cut paper collages, each one rooted in a flower she loved and wrote about.
Pale purples, butter yellows, blush and deep plum - all layered against warm, tea-stained grounds that feel like old paper and older poems. Every petal cut by hand. Every piece one of a kind, framed and ready to hang.
Made to last. Just like she intended.
Collect an Original Painting
Layer by Tiny Layer
Every piece starts with watercolor and ends with a lot of tiny scissors. In between - pressing, cutting, layering, and a fair amount of holding-my-breath while placing a single petal exactly where it needs to go. Worth it every time. ✨
All It Takes Is a Clover and a Bee
Three paintings rooted in the same quiet truth - that the simplest things are secretly the most alive.
Inspired by a poet, a garden, and her pressed herbarium.
Studies in Yellow.
Three paintings. One palette. A color Dickinson said nature saves for sunsets - and for this.
"Nobody knows this little Rose" by Emily Dickinson
Nobody knows this little Rose—
It might a pilgrim be
Did I not take it from the ways
And lift it up to thee.
Only a Bee will miss it—
Only a Butterfly,
Hastening from far journey—
On its breast to lie—
Only a Bird will wonder—
Only a Breeze will sigh—
Ah Little Rose—how easy
For such as thee to die!
Just Before.
Two lilacs. Two poems. One feeling - the ache of beauty that hasn't quite arrived yet.
“A Light exists in Spring
Not present on the Year,
At any other period -
When March is scarcely here”
―Emily Dickinson