Oh, the Morning Glory

With Oh the Morning Glory, I wanted to explore how nature announces itself in those heightened early moments of the day—when blossoms seem to pulse with possibility and the world feels newly assembled. Rather than approaching this subject representationally, I worked through abstraction to express the emotional and perceptual experience of morning glory: its exuberance, its delicacy, and its quiet insistence on beauty.

My practice is rooted in abstract expressionism, allowing intuition and gesture to guide the composition. As I layered forms and textures, I focused on the way memory and sensation combine to create an inner vision of nature rather than a literal one. The result is a painting that speaks to emergence—of colour, of energy, of the self, meeting the world at first light.