Interior Spaces and Botanicals | Leslie Ihde

• flowers of the dark #1

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 16" x 1 1/2"

• spring 24" by 24"

  Oil, Canvas, 24" x 24" x 1 1/2". Here in the midst of February spring dreams are on my mind. Playing with abstract shapes and hoping that they read as flowers. I sold this painting to a lovely young woman today.

• jungle window

  Oil, Linen, 28" x 22" x 1/2". When I was in Thailand, the jungle shadows made beautiful shapes in the bathroom window.

• blue bouquet

  Oil, Panel, 16" x 12". Threading the needle between abstract and representational. I worked with this piece over the course of a few days, blending colors to suggest a bouquet.

• Japanese Maple 2

  Oil, Canvas, 20" x 10" x 3/4"

• tulips

  Oil, Canvas, 14" x 11"

• Peach Roses

  Oil, Canvas, 14" x 11". Practicing loose brushwork, peach roses against Prussian blue

• Ikebana

  Acrylic, Canvas, 24" x 18"