The Artist’s Magazine – October 2019

80 Artists Magazine October 2019

based on the concept of flight—both literal

and figurative. She credits her “sense of the

whimsical, the fantastic,” with fueling her

flight-filled imaginings. “ ‘Flight’ means being

ungrounded and unconstrained by the rules

of a walking world,” says Law. “Flight is some-

thing we often dream about, and with it comes

the elation at being unbound.”

Her fascination with this concept is clear in

her Insects - Immortal Ephemera series (see When

Flowers Dream I, II and III, pages 74–75, and

Mourning Cloak, above), which she describes

as “beauty in the minutia, immortality in

the ephemeral.” The series consists largely of

winged insects, such as pollinators, dragonflies

and moths. “Immortal Ephemera began with my

love of botanical art,” says Law. Upon painting

a plant or a flower, not as a smaller piece of a

larger whole but as the purpose of the piece

itself, the artist noticed aspects of plant life that

she’d previously missed. “There were elements

and textures I only saw when I was completely

consumed by the process of painting those

miniscule details,” she says. “It made me realize

ABOVE

Mourning Cloak

watercolor and

copper leaf on paper,

10x10

RIGHT

Fermata

watercolor, copper

leaf and gold leaf on

paper; 14x7