Endemic; The Green Swamp, NC

The title refers to the Venus Fly Trap, one of the most amazing plants on earth.  It is endemic to, that is, only found in, coastal Carolina near the mouth of the Cape Fear River.  Other carnivorous plants and several terrestrial orchids also inhabit the long leaf pine savannah habitat.
Giclee' prints available.

The Parvisepalum Paphiopedilums

Watercolor painting of  Asian Lady Slipper orchids. 

...flowers are shown with their intricately patterned plants in a natural setting of limestone outcrops.

Bothriochilus bellus

Original Watercolor Painting

...pink-tipped flowers with lemon-yellow lips erupt from the masses of leaves in this unusual orchid from South America.

Onc. Native Dancer 'Sundance'

Original watercolor painting of the equitant oncidium orchid hybrid.

The pure white flowers dance in the breeze on a cobalt blue sky.
Giclee' prints available.

Oncidium Popoki 'Mitzi'

It always amazes me to see such huge heads of flowers on the miniature epiphytic plants.

Nature's Primary Colors

Original Watercolor painting of a golden phalaenopsis orchid hybrid.

If orchids were painters they would have big tubes of yellow and magenta.  Those pigments are their "Primary Colors".
Giclee' prints available. 

Paphiopedilum fairrieanum
The Pagoda Orchid

...To me, it is the most feminine of orchids, with its delicate ruffled edges and sensual curves.

The Fluteplayer's Orchid
Schomburgkia tibicinus

In life, the flowers waft in the breeze at the end of an eight-foot inflorescence that reaches toward the sun.
 

Tiny Frills (326)

Epidendrum schomburgkia
Watercolor painting of the reed-stem epidendrum orchid species.

'Startling' is the first impression of this luscious orchid with its bright orange flowers...

Twisted Demon

Detail of a watercolor painting of an unidentified Schomburgkia orchid species.

When I first saw this head of glossy chocolate-red twisty-curvy schomburgkias, I simply HAD to paint it.

Twisted Demon

Watercolor painting of an unidentified Schomburgkia orchid species.

I soon realized how crazy it was to take on a challenge of this scope.

Bulbophyllum fascinator

...dark colors, dangling protrusions, and questionable aromas don't belong in a decent greenhouse.

Paphiopedilum callosum

 Painted in the tradition botanical method this painting captures all the tiny details of the plant from the fuzzy stem to the hairy warts on the petals... 

Epidendrum ciliare

Named for the long white "eyelashes", or cilia, on the lip.

This delicate green orchid is sweetly night-fragrant and pollinated by moths.