Ficus Lyrata, Red, Blue, Green

This winter I began a practice of daily observational drawing. Starved for nature during the long dark season, I brought a large Fiddle Leaf Fig plant into my studio, and that plant became my muse. The curves of the leaves, the thick textured stem, and the bold simplicity of its lines resonated with me, and I found how it related to things I was searching for in my abstract work. I found that themes like shape relationships, reductionism, positive and negative space, color, and materiality can be explored as deeply with this subject as within abstraction.