It Just Works

Featuring six artists

Our annual floral show, Petals and Patterns, celebrates the extraordinary talent of six artists from across the country and abroad, each bringing their own perspective to the beauty of botanical art from delicate watercolors to bold mixed media installations, the show showcases the stunning range of ways flowers and natural patterns can inspire creative expression.

Living with art

Allison James (b. 1989) is a contemporary abstract painter. James is continually inspired by the messy (but thrilling) human experience. Her work is fueled by personal events and memories, along with conversations overheard from strangers and inside storybooks. James reconfigures these felt emotions into a preferred outcome, translating feeling into her own abstracted storytelling.