Welcome to artist Kris deYoung's online art gallery. Known at the Painter of Native Plants, Kris has been traveling the world photographing native plants, which eventually become transformed into one of her beautiful oil or watercolor paintings. The oil painting to the left is a closeup image of the bloom of the Mojave Agave plant. This one was in glorious bloom at the Torrey Pines State Preserve and captured with a Sony digital camera. The original oil painting is 30"x30"x2" and was selected as best in show at Gallery 21 in Spanish Village in 2009 and as one of SWAA's Top 100 in 2010.

In her "Native Plants Series" Kris presents the juxtaposition of abstract and representational artistic styles, while informing about the intrusion of man, represented by hard-edge elements, into the botanical habitat of our planet's beautiful native plant communities. She is currently working toward 100 native plant portraits, but has painted many other venues and does a separate series of sunrise/sunset landscapes. The images below are Flowering Sycamore Tree and Chinese Hawthorn Berry. The latter is the inspiration for a glass mosaic piece that is installed in the lobby of the newly remodeled Palomar Hospital in Escondido, CA.   She is currently working on #68-75 paintings of her "Native Plant Series."

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