As I work on each of the still life compositions I make, I’m most curious about finding the story that the flowers and bugs want to tell. There’s a connection between the gardens where I harvested my still life characters, the people who grew these plants or the place where they were found, and the connections between the bugs and butterflies and the flowers where they live (whether fiction or fact).  My work as an artist is to find, or create, those connections. 

Deb Stoner
2024