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Keep Learning, Purple Lupine Spike on Green

A tall spike of purple and white lupine flowers rises along the left side of a soft green, painterly background. A blurred bee hovers near the blooms. On the right, lavender hand-lettered text reads "One of the secrets to staying young is to always do things you don't know how to do, to keep learning. ~ Ruth Reichl."

Someone would want this piece because it pairs a richly detailed purple-and-white lupine with a lavender line of lettering that picks up the flower's own colour. Most lupine prints are flower and nothing else. This one holds a quiet thought about learning in the open green space beside the bloom. The soft, painterly finish keeps it gentle rather than loud, so a person drawn to purple and green flowers gets a reason to stay with the image as well as a pretty picture.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski