Paintings on Vases within Paintings | Mary Aslin

• Pivoines Françaises Lumineuses

  Pastel, Paper, 14 x 19. This painting was begun as part of a demonstration for the long-awaited show "American Women Pastellists in France", featured as part of an international exposition of women pastellists from arou…

• Happy Birthday Blues

  Pastel, Paper, 23 x 29. Placing these white mums—a birthday gift from my son—in this gorgeous flow blue vase with a swag of rich translucent blue cloth, bright cool light streaming through the window, I created this pai…

• I Dream in Blue

  Pastel, Paper, 18 x 24. This painting is a tribute to the artist, Abbott Handerson Thayer who painted the most beautiful still life paintings.Painting this still life from life in cool, atmospheric north light offers it…

• Tribute to Mondrian

  Pastel, Paper, 18 x 24. Dutch artist Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) felt that inherent in nature was an underlying spirituality. And he attempted to get to the root of this spirituality by representing its fundamental essenc…

• Heart's Desire

  Pastel, Paper, 22 x 25. Finding beautiful white peonies, imported from Columbia, in the local market in the winter was an unexpected thrill! I gathered the vases, a round glass disk, and a long piece of cut paper towel…

• Breath of Radiance

  Pastel, Paper, 25 x 20. Claude Monet said: “For me, it is only the surrounding atmosphere which gives subjects their true value." Whatever the subject, I love most to paint the nuanced colors of atmosphere. In this stil…

• Secret Somewhere

  Pastel, Canvas, 48 x 20. This garden was created from my imagination to celebrate roses! Each one, bathed in soft cool light, was placed as a note in softly curving lyrical melody to emphasize the splendor of their rich…