I painted this after a day  in the garden a few years back, puling all the end of the season, spent flowers.  This is usually a sad task.  The sunflowers were not only at the end of their season, but had also been slightly damaged in a summer storm.  Most of the flowers I gathered that day ended up in the compost pile.  But I just couldn't quite throw away the sunflowers. Maybe it was because I had recently turned fifty, but I found a  beauty to the wear and tear and aging process that had taken hold of these sunflowers. So instead, I brought them inside and put them in one of my favorite white pocelein vases with blue designs.  I immediately began to paint the beauty in these aging flowers.  It seemed like each dropping petal told the story of the experiences of these flowers.  It felt like a special time to be able to share that story on canvas.  
 
This print is offered in two sizes -  16x2- on fine art watercolor paper and 8x10 on canvas.