48” x 36” Oil Painting on Canvas

I started this commission at the very beginning of COVID. While my clients knew they wanted a cactus, they gave me the artistic freedom to create the composition, which I’m so thankful for.

During the quarantine, I was going a tad bit stir-crazy being cooped up all day & decided to go on a walk after a large rainstorm subsided. On that day, so many blooming cacti flourished throughout Austin; I’d never seen anything like it. It was such a picturesque sight, seeing such beauty after a bad storm, & I knew a painting would have to come from it.

To me, this piece represents the silver linings that we’ve all had to uncover during whatever trial & tribulation we have each faced. I hope that you can find beauty after this storm & the ‘flowers beneath the thorns.’