Woodland Hydrangeas

A sculptural ceramic composition of woodland hydrangeas rendered at a scale — twenty-two inches tall, nineteen wide — that commands a console or entry table with quiet authority. John Richard brings a botanist's attentiveness to the bloom clusters, capturing the layered, cloudlike fullness of the flower in a medium that lends the arrangement an enduring, almost lithic permanence. The ceramic ground elevates what might otherwise read as natural ephemera into something architectural, an object as considered as the room it inhabits.