Just Past Midnight

A midnight garden hums with color long after the sun has disappeared. Coral and magenta blooms mingle with electric blue flowers, delicate looping lupine, and tiny chartreuse dots that scatter and swirl through the foliage like sparks of light. Against a deep teal sky, every mark feels a little brighter, a little stranger, a little more alive.

Look closer and the garden has visitors. Pale moths flutter between the flowers, while copper lupine rise through the background like ghostly silhouettes, catching just enough light to shimmer against the deep teal. They weave behind the brighter blooms, adding another layer to this tangled nighttime world of petals, pollen, movement, and glowing color. Fine black outlines and loose, repeating marks give the piece the feeling of something still unfolding, as though the garden is quietly carrying on without us.

Just Past Midnight is about the life that continues when no one is watching. About the secret hours when the garden belongs to moths and moonlight. About remembering that darkness isn't empty, sometimes it's absolutely humming.

Comes framed, ready to hang.
Created in my Anchorage home studio.