The Secret Garden and Wattle Birds by Lori Pensini

Artist Statement: I believe our connection to our landscape is momentous for physical and psychological fitness and health. Intrinsic to our being it heightens our senses and reconnects us to our inherited sensory memories of family and community and in turn bonds us. Even without being present to a landscape the garden of memory within generates a space of nurture and principal. Our depth heart soul. These paintings explore my character memories influenced by nature but I don't wish them to be defined as mine or by mine. I ask you the viewer to couple your own reflections back through your being and reawaken your own garden weeds and blossoms alike to revisit the attributes of your own shaping. - Lori Pensini