The Loving Space: Motherhood and the Natural Sublime in Contemporary Floral painting

Abstract

 The unconditional love of a mother is spacious. The paper discusses how the connection between a flower and the love of a mother’s generosity is as limitless as Mother Nature. Drawing on the natural sublime, a reflection on motherhood becomes a series of large scale paintings of flowers. Rarely is the sublime referred to the greatness or inspirational characteristics or values of human beings through the intimate bonds of relationships. Principles of the sublime deliberates that transcendence, or the act of overcoming oneself arises when the limited ego bows down in awe when confronted by immense nature, by  mountains or a thundering rapid. Equally, motherhood holds overreaching power which carries through generations like a river flower through time. Mother, are no less compared to the greatness of nature.