Flowers for a Sculpture - Sarah Myers

Sculpture with flowers, Sarah Myers
Terracotta "Woman with a Bowl", roses, lavender, bougainvillea

       Rich apricot blooms, exquisite purple-pink roses much tinier, and sprigs of lavender – all flowers from my sister's desert garden – mingle with bougainvillea and dark orange-tree leaves from our orchard. The fragrant bouquet fills the bowl of my terracotta sculpture; with assured dignity she carries the autumn wealth of the garden poised lightly on her head. The light makes stars and streams in long beams through the dark, intricate lattice-work of a handmade screen from India, while under the sculpture's feet, where her long skirts sweep the ground, are the delightfully bright tiles, orange, green, blue, of a small table from Mexico. In these images you are seeing a corner of our home in the desert.

  

Terracotta sculpture with bowl full of roses and lavender

Flower arrangement, sculpture.  Sarah Myers

Sculpture in my home, Sarah Myers
Terracotta figure, arrangement of roses and lavender, Indian screen and tiled Mexican table.

Lady with Plumes - Sculpture by Sarah Myers

Lady with Plumes and a Basket, Sarah Myers
Sculpture in terracotta

     She arrives with a curved basket, full of spring brilliance, and with a cluster of tall plumes twisted into her hair. Her eyes are thoughtful, her head tilted elegantly toward her armful of new flowers.

    My latest sculpture, she is formed from vivid red terracotta and was finished with about a day's worth of work, keeping the spontaneity of her creation through to her kiln-fired completion. Now she is bringing you a bouquet of blooms from the garden – jasmine, bougainvillea, pelargonium, nasturtium and long sprays of lavender.

Lady with Plumes and a Basket, Sarah Myers

Lady with Plumes and a Basket, Sarah Myers
Detail of face

Lady with Plumes and a Basket, Sarah Myers

Lady with Plumes and a Basket, Sarah Myers
All photography and flower arrangement by the Artist

Lady with Plumes and a Basket, Sarah Myers
Face

Lady with Plumes and a Basket, Sarah Myers

Lady with Plumes and a Basket, Sarah Myers
Flower arrangement and photography by the Artist

A Sculpture - with some flowers - Art by Sarah Myers

Lady holding a Bowl, Sarah Myers
Terracotta

Lady holding a Bowl, back

      A lady in red terracotta offers a bowl-full of early autumn blooms. She came successfully through the kiln; her ringlets, the gathered folds of her dress, and the shell-like bowl she holds were all perfect after the fire. She was simply waiting for someone to fill her dish or bowl with a few treasures – and so my first marigolds, a few zinnias, and a delicious rose from my sister's garden were tumbled into her outstretched hands.

Lady holding a Bowl, Sarah Myers 

Bright Afternoon Bouquet - Photography by Sarah Myers

Brilliant Flowers
Photography by Sarah Myers

A small cluster of flowers becomes a flaming torch of joyful colour in the afternoon sunlight.  The simple vase with a brown-black "volcanic" glaze was made by my sister Amy Myers.  It holds a cluster of ruby-red, orange, and orange-yellow nasturtiums, a bunch of scarlet pelargoniums (geraniums) and three cheerful tetraneuris daisies.  These - the yellow daisies at the top - came from Amy's desert garden, while the other blooms are from my pots of flowers in the patio.

Cluster of Flowers
Photography, Sarah Myers

Nasturtium Detail
Photography, Sarah Myers

Bright Bouquet in Afternoon Light
Photography, Sarah Myers

Dancer with Flowers - Sculpture by Sarah Myers

Dancer for flowers, Sarah Myers

My new sculpture holds overflowing flowers in her hands and on her head. Made in stoneware for just these kinds of bouquets, she glances up at the blooms above her with a happy expression and sways lightly as if beginning to dance with the flowers.

Arrangement and photography by the artist.

Dancer for flowers, detail
Sarah Myers

Dancer for flowers, Sarah Myers

Bouquet detail
Sarah Myers

Dancer, flowers
Sarah Myers

Sarah Myers
Dancer for flowers.  Arrangement and photography by the Artist.

The Birthday Bouquet Flies

The Birthday Bouquet Flies

With blooms of roses and myrtle from her garden, my sister created this bouquet for my birthday.  In my favorite picture above, an ethereal crystal vase filled with flowers flies through the air.

Roses in a Crystal Vase

Wine-Coloured Chrysanthemums

Chrysanthemums, Desert Branches in a Pitcher
Photography by Sarah Myers

Great, glowing burgundy chrysanthemums, placed in a graceful pitcher - a form inspired by an ancient Greek shape, the oinochoe, and created by Amy Myers.  Photography by Sarah Myers.

Wine-coloured Chrysanthemums
Photography, Sarah Myers