"By Your Side" Print

California artist Marisa Murrow finds inspiration in what otherwise would go unseen and unused at her studio in Westwood Village, Los Angeles. Looking into a jungle of fragments: stems without flowers, petals and buds separated from what once held them together, these paintings take shape through careful observation and omission of the obvious. Murrow incorporates elements from her work as a floral designer, rendering an intimate view of the materials that fall to the floor as she creates.Torn newspaper, rubber bands, bent stems and broken flowers become their own sort of deconstructed arrangement.Wet-on-wet brushstrokes of oil paint carefully describe her intimate connection with the flowers. Straddling the line between abstraction and representation, the artist presents us with a delightful take on our traditional understanding of Still Life painting.