Tim O’Toole’s Wildflower Cluster II

A composed arrangement of wildflowers rendered in paper and wood, Wildflower Cluster II by John Richard achieves the rare quality of feeling both spontaneous and deeply considered. The champagne finish moves across the surface in layers — gloss and gel playing against deliberately distressed passages — so that the work reads differently in morning light than it does by evening candlelight. At nearly forty inches in height and thirty inches across, it commands a wall with the quiet authority of a commissioned botanical study.