“Sun Shower” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © A frangapani after a shower of rain. “Rain showers my spirit / and waters my soul.” / ~Emily Logan Decens Sun Shower was featured in the: Prize Challenges Group
“Memories of Springtime” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © Flowering native grasses. “And Spring arose on the garden fair, / Like the Spirit of Love felt everywhere; / And each flower and herb on Earth’s dark breast / rose from the dreams of its wintry rest.” / ~Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Fern Dance” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © A botanical study of a single fern frond. “Waking, stretching casting off sleep, cocoon of its slumber / awakening to the dawn of spring, new life in the fresh air / breathing in the newness of the spring day opening its wings / to catch the sun, the breeze take its rightful place on the forest floor a bit of beauty rising from the leaf litter bright and green majestic in its own way for its time on the stage.” / ~Raymond A. Foss
“Summer Fragrance” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © A gardenia bud beginning to bloom. “Oh! To be a flower nodding in the sun, / Bending, then upspringing as the breezes run; / Holding up a scent-brimmed cup, / Full of summer’s fragrance to the summer sun.” / ~ Amy Lowell
“Gardenia” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © “Love me tender / Love me true / All my dreams fulfilled / For, my darling… I love you / And I always will.”
“Snowflake” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © Euphorbia leucocephala or Snowflake Flower. “Just living is not enough. One must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.” / ~Hans Christian Anderson
“Nature’s Window” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © Nature’s Window was featured in the: Live, Love, Dream group
“Interwoven Hues” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © Closeup of the trunk of a Triangle Palm or Dypsis decaryi. “But who can paint like Nature? / Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?” / ~James Thomson
“Regrowth” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © A succulent flower emerging from a background of stone. “We are all visitors to this time, this place. / We are just passing through. / Our purpose here is to observe, to learn, to grow, / to love… and then we return home.”
“Brazilian Cherry” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © “Food for thought is no substitute for the real thing.” / ~Walt Kelly
“Reminiscing” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © “Pleasure is the flower that passes; remembrance, the lasting perfume.” / ~Jean de Boufflers
“Chive” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © A chive in flower. “Sunshine surrounds the earth as love surrounds our souls.” / ~Amethyst Snow-Rivers
“Praise” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © An agapanthus beginning to bloom. “Praise the young and they will blossom.” / ~Irish Proverb
“Dandelion” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © “It gives one a sudden start in going down a / barren, stony street, to see upon a narrow / strip of grass, just within the iron fence, / the radiant dandelion, shining in the grass, / like a spark dropped from the sun.” / ~ Henry Ward Beecher Dandelion was featured in the: Dandelion group – Jan 09, Apr 09 & Jun 09
“Smooth Angel Rose” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © Looking into the apricot colored heart / of a Smooth Angel Rose. “One rose says more than the dozen.” / ~ Wendy Craig
“Wattle” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © “Sparkling in the sunlight, dancing in the breeze, / Creating magic in the bush the beautiful wattle trees / The perfume of its flowers encompass all around / The golden yellow hues of blossom on the ground.” / ~ Joy Wornes Competition Top Ten of the Australian Bush groups contest Wattle bring in the Spring. Top Ten of the Fabulous Flowers group Wattle challenge
“Networking” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © An eroded sandbank exposing the roots of trees and plants growing above it. Tin Can Bay, Queensland. “Wisdom has its root in goodness, / not goodness its root in wisdom.” / ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson / Three canvases – email for details Networking was featured in the: Abstracts from Naure group – Feb 09
“Reaching Out” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © A perspective shot of a palm frond. “Reach out to others and then cast your light / out wide, there is nothing to fear, so please / don’t run and hide. / Show strength with integrity and let others / see this too. For what is more precious than / reaching out in all you do?” / ~ by Margaret Jang Reaching Out was featured in the: Just Lines group – Mar 09
“Breeze” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © Sony a100 camera / Photoshop CS4 artwok Grass reeds swaying in a gentle breeze….. “Exhilaration is the Breeze / That lifts us from the Ground / And leaves us in another place / Whose statement is not found—“ “Returns us not, but after time / We soberly descend / A little newer for the term / Upon Enchanted Ground—“ / ~ Emily Dickinson Breeze was featured in the: Inspired Art group – April 09
“Togetherness” Photography and Artwork / By Holly Kempe © Two white waterlilies with their petals entwined. You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present. / ~Jan Glidewell
“Scotch Thistle” Photography and Artwork / by Holly Kempe © What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered. / ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
“With Love” Photography and Artwork / by Holly Kempe © A white rose touched by morning dew and backed by an old love letter. Love would never be a promise of a rose garden unless it is showered with light of faith, water of sincerity and air of passion. / ~Author Unknown With Love has been featured in the: Out of the Past group – Aug 09
I Love a Sunburnt Country Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © “I love a sunburnt country, / A land of sweeping plains, / Of ragged mountain ranges, / Of drought and flooding rains, / I love her far horizons, / I love her jewel sea, / Her beauty and her terror - / The wide brown land for me.” / ~Dorothea Mackellar
“Purple and Green” Photography & Artwork / by Holly Kempe © An abstract adaption of a bed of Moses-in-the-Cradle (Rhoeo Spathacea) plants. Sony a100 camera / Photoshop CS4 artwork
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