ANNELIESE SULLIVAN
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“That is beautiful which is produced by internal necessity…" 
-Wassily Kandinsky.  

Traces of Paradise
113 Imagined Flowers (Paper Cut-Outs)

During the post-war years, with five siblings sleeping in one room, the landscape of my native Bavaria washed away the hardships of home. I remember playing in mountain meadows full of wild flowers – like the yellow Dotterblumen (Marsh Merigold) and the sky-blue Vergissmeinnicht (Forget-me-not). With clanging cow bells and the towering Wendelstein ridge
off in the distance, nature felt wondrous and protective.

After 25-years as an interior designer, mainly focused on the reconstruction of Berlin, I wanted to create a series that honored the German handiwork tradition, and my early embrace of nature. 

The result is “Traces of Paradise,” a flower-cut series. With nods to the baroque painter Georg Flegel, and Matisse’s, 'scissor drawings," I have created 113 imagined flowers-representing fertility, beauty and the animating forces of life itself.

Traces of Paradise.
Watercolor on Archival Paper Collage 
27” H x 17” W, Unframed

Lascaux Sirius Watercolor on Arches Aquarelle 185g/qm, Grain Satiné


MFA, George Washington University
Additional works available on request and at KYO Gallery, Oldtown Alexandria  www.kyogallery.com
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