COLOMBIAN SUNRISE
I met this client at the Coconut Grove Arts Festival and she commissioned a piece for her dining room. Her Colombian heritage was a fantastic starting place to create this floral. She sent some photos of her favorite flowers from that country, and from those and my own research, I created this tropical commission.
I will be creating a similar one for my booth for the upcoming Florida show season.
“Colombia is the country with the most types of orchids in the world. It is no surprise that the Cattleya flower, commonly known as the May flower, is considered our national symbol. This orchid, native to Colombia, has a great variety of shapes and colors and is a display of the biodiversity that exists in a unique country.
Of the 4,270 species of orchids registered in Colombia, 1,572 are endemic. Additionally, 274 genera of orchids are distributed across the different regions of Colombia. ”