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Dayton, WA
$325.00
Title
Two Daffodils
Artist
Steve Henderson
Medium
Painting - Watercolor On Paper
Description
They’re not a splashy, showy flower, daffodils.
Rather, they’re understated, often tucked away among the foliage and quietly emerging in the early spring. In shades of cream, white, and yellow, they don’t shout at the passerby, but rather, wait for him and her to finish passing by, stop, turn around, and say,
“Is that a DAFFODIL? It’s spring! Daffodils are the harbinger of spring!â€
The artwork, Two Daffodils, celebrates the quiet, persistent intensity of the daffodil. Reposing in a simple glass vase (actually, it’s a glass bottle that used to hold cream), the duo of flowers looks out in their new world, the interior of a home. Perhaps a child picked them, which would account for their short stems since children, for some reason, often discount the importance of stems. (Many a home with young children has flowers floating atop the water in a glass bowl.)
The flower in front stands tall and straight, looking boldly out at the viewer. The one on the left, in that signature daffodil way, droops slightly, as if it is looking down and thinking. They won’t last long in this new home because flowers just don’t, but while they are here they bring a smile into the room, a smile of hope and joy and goodness – the hope and joy and goodness of spring.
If it’s been a while since you’ve read it, or if you’ve never read it at all, find the poem Daffodils, by William Wordsworth, which starts out, “I wandered lonely as a cloud,†and ends, “ . . . my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils.â€
The poet captured well that feeling of coming upon a meadow of these softly waving, elegant yet decidedly country dwellers of the field.
They’re not splashy; they’re humble. And in that humility, that simplicity, there is great beauty.
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April 20th, 2022
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Port Orange, FL - United States
Congratulation.....your wonderful work has been featured in the 1000 Views on 1 Image Group ..... Feel free to place your featured image in the Features Archive and any Genre specific Archive l/f/p
Port Orange, FL - United States
One of your peers nominated this image in the 1000 Views on One Image Group's Special Features Nominations For Promotion #24 . Please help your fellow artists by visiting and passing on the love to another artist in the the 1000 Views on One Image Group....L/F/Tw
Middletown, PA - United States
Beautiful work, Steve!!! CONGRATULATIONS, your work is featured in "Beautiful Watercolors"! I invite you to place it in the group's "Featured Image Archive" discussion thread and any other thread that is fitting!! 😊
Santa Fe, NM - United States
Nice watercolor still life, not typical of your work, but like all the others, I really like it
Bowling Green, KY - United States
Such a beautiful work of art! I do agree with Wordsworth regarding the daffodils!
South Brent, De - United Kingdom
Congratulations, your picture has been featured on the home page in the group STILL LIFE FLORALS on 19th May 2022. This is a lovely creation....like and favourite. Please look in the group discussions to see the features for this week and any message you may like to leave there will be most appreciated. Contest for a floral arrangement in/on anything other than a vase is still open for entries. Please see group e-mail for the links to both of these subjects.
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