Miss Wilmott’s Ghost

Plant Blindness

MISS WILLMOTT’S GHOST

18" x 24" Glass Fragments and Acrylic on Canvas

Miss Willmott’s Ghost features aggressive lines and fragmented glass to create a dramatic effect. It is part of a series exploring unconventional methods of portraying botanicals, designed to enhance one’s appreciation of form.

So the story goes... a wellrespected British gardener had a fondness for Eryngium giganteum, a persistent plant species. So, when visiting other’s gardens, she would inconspicuously scatter seeds among their beds. The plants flourished and seemed to materialize everywhere. They still persist, so it’s as if her ghost haunts the gardens of England to this day.