Artist: Emily McQueen
Title: Blossoms Will Come
Medium: Block Print and Oil Paint on Canvas
Unframed Dimensions: 30 x 24 inches
Price: $1,000
Artist Statement: This piece explores the Yellow Elder during its quiet, bloomless season. While its showy yellow blossoms will inevitably return, the work centers on the beauty and patience demanded by the wait.
Artist Bio: Emily McQueen is an Arizona-based mixed media artist whose work investigates the dualities of the human experience. Inspired by botanical illustrations of the 19th century, her work features oil painted florals over a background of hand-carved block print patterns, generating a tactile push-pull between meticulous repetition and expressive brushwork. This visual tension directly mirrors McQueen’s decades navigating life as a wheelchair user with a permanent disability, where she finds profound beauty in the coexistence of opposing forces: fragile and fierce, mundane and remarkable, subtle and bold.
