Flowers have nature given grace with the holy spirit of the human heart , They have short-lived but brilliant and beautiful lives and consequently people have special feelings and an extra caring for them. For all time, the flower has been one of the constantl themes in the world of art. Van Gogh's " Sunflowers " and Monet’s “ Water Lilies " are examples which these artists left for humanity’s spiritual wealth and have won eternal and universal praise.Still life is a usual theme in traditional painting. There have been numerous and uncountable flower paintings from the artist’s brush but there are very few engraved with distinctive and individual traces of strong personality.

Gary Bukovnik, a famous American contemporary watercolorist , was born in Cleveland Ohio in 1947 and educated in the arts. He has been living in San Francisco and creating for nearly 40 years, mainly using watercolor, monotype and lithography that is infused with a sensual vitality. Fluid yet powerful colors create paintings stunning to behold. Delightful flowers, blossoms or various kinds of food accurately portrayed and colorfully reproduced naturally in gorgeous scenes with a raw exuberance.

Isolation on a white background is the one of the most significant features of Gary’s art, giving us an infinite reverie of space, meanwhile also allowing the main subject to be more prominent. Of course , the colors are lifelike, vivid , Precise, richly accurate and with full fluency of technique; these are some of his most commendable points. Gary’s works are elegant, big-hearted and very chic in their composition, either complex and seemingly unordered or neatly orderly and harmoniously dynamic with a personal realism. Looking at the whole of the work, full of music-like rhythms , beautiful and filled with emotion , giving the viewer a special enjoyment of beauty, cordial feelings ..... peaceful, relaxed, comfortable and refreshing. We could imagine being in our own garden - possibly for tea and a chat. In the bustle and flamboyance of today’s world, this is what we are missing and what we especiallly need.