Cyclamen by Julie de Graag Illustration-Japanese this one finds its power

this one finds its power in stillness and restraint

Sheet 7 from Harold Fisk's monumental 1944 Mississippi River study documents the river's restless

a restrained earthy palette

Sekka understood that abstraction and ornamentation are not opposites

slightly heightened

Cyclamen by Julie de Graag Illustration-Japanese this one finds its powerCyclamen captures de Graag's singular ability to translate delicate botanical forms into bold graphic language. The swept back petals of the cyclamen flowers a distinctive reflexed shape found nowhere else in the plant world are rendered with engraved lines that convey both fragility and tension. The mottled, heart shaped leaves beneath add tonal contrast, their variegated surfaces cross hatched to suggest depth. The composition balances botanical