Voices of Experience - Elizabeth Robbins
The garden and its gifts of colorful blooms presents both a challenging and a rewarding subject to artists. Auguste Rodin wrote, “The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.” One of those painters for whom the art of the garden is paramount is Elizabeth Robbins. Her gardens provide limitless inspiration to her still life paintings.