In the Garden: Girl with Hydrangeas

by Leah Mitchell

Oil painting from 2021, oil on linen adhered to archival 3/8 Gatorfoam board, 20.25″x 16″.

Art Nouveau inspired garden scene with blue hydrangeas.

“Now that lilacs are in bloom. She has a bowl of lilacs in her room. And twists one in her fingers while she talks. ‘Ah my friend, you do not know, you do not know. What life is, you who hold it in your hands’ (Slowly twisting Lilac stalks) ‘You let it flow from you , you let it flow, and Youth is cruel and has no remorse. And smiles at situations which is cannot see.’ I smile of course, and go on drinking tea.”

–from “Portrait of a Lady” T. S. Eliot

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Leah Mitchell

Leah Mitchell is a mid-career fine artist with an MFA in painting from Northern Illinois University. She paints narrative and allegorical paintings of contemporary women, inspired by the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and Botticelli. She lives in Illinois where the city ends and the corn begins with her husband, their three children and a flock of winged dinosaurs.