Chinese Lanterns
Oriental Figure with Flute
Chinese Lantern Flowers with Kimono
I have grown Chinese Lanterns ever since I have had a garden. It has poisonous leaves and flowers and that helps to keep most pests away. The small nectar-loving birds like to hang upside down to drink from it. It’s easy to grow, in all it’s an ideal plant. The beautiful bell-shaped flowers make for great painting material and the leaves and flowers last a long time in a vase. Beside that, it’s flowering season is very long, so it is available for painting for a considerable part of the year. In all, an ideal plant! All the flowers come from my garden. Some of the paintings show an entirely different leaf shape; that’s from different plants I have grown.
Chinese Lantern Flowers and Leaves
The Tall Cream Vase
Exhibition
My next art exhibition will be at the Metcalfe Gallery, Brisbane Institute of Art in March 2024. Please send me a note so I can remind you before my exhibition starts, Christine.
The Striped Cloth
Chinese Lanterns and Dragon
Blue Dragon
