“What beautiful flowers! says someone passing behind me.
I suddenly see the flowers blooming before my eyes.
What on earth have I been looking at till this moment in the bright spring, I wonder. Whatever have I been thinking?”
from Road of the Tinkling Bell, Paintings, Poems and Essays by
Tomihiro Hoshino
 

Flowers, trees, nature, all so beautiful and yet so difficult for me to paint. The subtle movements in nature, the changing shadows, so many greens and blues, and so much to look at. But sometimes I tackle the challenge. I think of Tomihiro-san, and I try to see.

The Magnolias

the huge white petals of the southern beauty transformed into the colors of my imagination

“Standing up smartly only at the beginning but then her colour fades and she bows her head to the mercy of the wind.
Yet I like the lily magnolia.
Blooming under the blue sky she is like me somehow.” from Road of the Tinkling Bell, Paintings, Poems and Essays by Tomihiro Hoshino