Secrets of a Rose

Someone once said to me… Everything that you do seems to have a story behind it. I agreed…. the things that I create, is more then just art, but a expression to tell a story in another way. So as it is in this painting of the roses…as you look closely, you see more then just two roses in a vase.

This is a story of a man and woman in love. Of course she is the smaller rose and tends to lean toward him for support, protection and longs to be submitted to only him. Knowing this, he loves and cares for her. She has made him feel that he is the king of all other roses.

If you look closely…. you will see that as she allows him to be rule over her…. she knows that she is also in control. That is why she has her hands on her hips (the vase)…revealing her “attitude.” This is not a story of power and who controls whom, but it shows respect, love and compromise. For the greatest of all is love and the rose has always represented this.