“Flowers are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty out-values all the utilities of the world.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A close-up semi-abstract photograph of a flower’s centr, Nicolson pitches deep reds against yellows and blacks. Using innovative printing techniques, Nicholson successfully overcomes the barriers of flat photographic forms.
‘I have always been driven by the deep-seated compulsion to create images. By the time I was nine years old I was taking photographs, developing films and making prints.’
An up close, picturesque and delicate image of a dandelion.
Cornus, commonly known as Dogwood is not the most popular or most common flowering tree, but it has still developed a certain mystique and mythology of its very own. The name “dog-tree” entered the English vocabulary before 1548, becoming “dogwood” by 1614.
This cactus flower blossomed very quickly and unexpectedly whilst hidden behind a curtain in my home, Gerlikaite notes of this photograph. She goes on to say, “When discovered in full bloom, everyone marvelled at its elegance and grace and predicted a happy and successful year, as such beauty can only be a bearer of luck and joy”. This ghostly, almost x-ray, imagining of the cactus flower presents it as a symmetrical piece of stunning natural beauty.
Originally first published in 1970 and based on a photograph by nature photographer Patricia Caulfield, Andy Warhol made prints of the Mandrinette flower with each print featuring the bloom’s petals in various colours.
The artichoke flower is actually an artichoke going to seed. The blossoms measure up to seven inches in diameter and are a beautiful violet-blue colour. Ancient Greeks and Romans considered artichokes a delicacy and an aphrodisiac.
This is the back alley of Yong Lin’s grandmother’s house in Alor Setar, Kedah. The stunning colours, unblemished starry night and flowers give a heartwarming insight into a local community surrounded by beauty, and
Surrounded by a sea of white, Nicolson presents a Kaktus as if a scientific specimen. Yet the rich texture of the plant also imparts the feeling and thickness of oil paint.
A red rose symbolises love, beauty, courage and respect, passion and unconscious beauty. This shot was taken in Lossenham Manor, Newenden, Kent, UK.