Ultimate Iris, A watercolor painting and poem.

Title: Ultimate Iris by Leslie Montana
Watercolor on hot press paper
Paper 15 x 22.5 inches / Image 11 x 16 inches
Keynotes: Creative Action, Radical Individuation
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Individuation: The hidden purpose of art.

I was born to be an artist. It’s not a charmed life or a romantic existence. Following a path of creative authenticity requires fierce insistence. Call it commitment or maybe even stubbornness. Being an artist is a way of life.

Thankfully, my creative foundation was strong from the very beginning. From the day I could make marks on paper with crayons, I knew I wanted to be an artist. Whatever that meant to me at two or three years old, it still holds significance for me today... continue reading.

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Exquisite Paintings on the Nature of Flowers is a body of work based on a sophisticated visual analysis of Nature's frequencies = LOVE. My long-standing body of work, ongoing and now in phase two, began in the early 1990s and is the culmination of a lifetime quest—a sacred journey into the heart of Nature, beauty, and healing the myth of separation. Leslie Montana