Christine Mercer-Vernon| Floral Art

Photo of artists easel with a small botanical style oil panel in progress of white and burgundy cosmos. Overlaid text reads: *inside voice* Just keep painting, Just keep painting. (Me trying to manage my anxiety after waking up and scrolling the news feed for the 404th day)

Soon the gray of winter will be replaced with saturated colors. Thank goodness.

For now, I’m #painting #flowers—because there is joy in each delicate petal—and we do need that, right?

#floralpaintings #findingjoy #botanicalartist

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Need a doomscrolling break? Let me introduce you to Max, an American Kestrel, I recently painted from life. He’s a terrifying falcon (no he’s not, he’s adorable).
#art #kestrel #bird #painting #sciart

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Cropped image of a blooming blush peony and bud with a bee approaching from the upper right

Two white cosmo flowers and one burgundy cosmo bud. A bee is approaching from the left and an ant crawls up the middle stem

An oil painting of five magnolia flowers. One is fully open. The other four are buds in various stages of blooming. A bee, center, approaches the wide open blossom.

A painting of Three arching tulip stems in various stages of blooming. One wide open pink tulip hangs low in the center, above, a half open tulip bends toward the center as a bee approaches

“All we can control
In this silly
and wildly perfect
life,
is the love
that we
choose to give out
without any regard
to ever
getting it back
in return.”
~ Tyler Knott Gregson

Four floral paintings that feel like love.

#love #flowers #floralpainting #sciart #botanicalart

Of Mark & Meaning | American Women Artists — Christine Mercer-Vernon Fine Art Of Mark & Meaning: American Women Artists  will be exhibited in Clarksville, TN from February 13, 2026 – April 26, 2026.

4/4 I’ve put more information on my website. There may be no flowers outside right now, but there is still beauty, spend a little time out in nature to remind yourself it’s there. www.mercer-vernon.com/art-exhibiti...

Opening tomorrow, February 13th, the show will run through April 26th. Spending time with art reduces anxiety, depression, and stress. This exhibition is absolutely beautiful and filled with work that will inspire and renew your spirit. 3/4 #joy #findingjoy #nature

Which makes me all the more grateful that this celebration of spring has traveled all the way to the Customs House Museum & Cultural Center, in Tennessee, for the American Women Artists “Of Mark & Meaning” exhibition. 2/4 #floralpainting #botanicalart

photo of the artist holding a painting of 3 white daffodils and 3 snowdrops painted in a botanical style in a black floater frame.

photo of a botanical style oil painting of three white daffodils and three snowdrops. There are three daffodil buds that have not opened. Crawling up two stems are small black ants. A cabbage butterfly is resting on a closed bud in the upper left and from the right a bumble bee is approaching the tallest center flower. The insects are all draw in graphite.

There’s a lot that feels heavy right now and to be honest, I’ve found it difficult to step up to the easel without feeling guilty. But these past two weeks I’ve been planning flowers for the summer and thinking about what I wanted to paint, and feeling the need to create.. 🧵 1/4 #art #sciart

Looking across the artist’s drawing table, in the foreground is a small sketchbook with a tiger swallowtail butterfly drawn in graphite. The actual butterfly lies in a green dish center of image. Above cropped and extended out of frame is a painting of yellow sunflowers that the butterfly will be added to. To the right, cropped and extended out of a frame is a small craft container with multiple compartments holding the artist’s bug collection.

“Paying attention is a form of reciprocity with the living world…” — Robin Wall Kimmerer

🦋 A quiet moment in the studio from last summer. Observing, drawing, paying attention.

#art #sciart #floralpainting #flowers #sunflowers #butterfly #joy

Love feathers and bones. This is lovely!

Folks, please don’t tell artists they shouldn’t be making or selling their art right now. For many, it’s how they pay the bills. Art is vital during times like this. ALL ART. Whether it’s a protest sign or a book cover or just a beautiful drawing. It’s part of the heart of humanity.

As an artist who has been struggling to work or even post, I really needed to hear this. 🤍

The Trump regime is smearing this man - Alex Pretti - as a “domestic terrorist.” We can’t let them get away with it.

Alex Pretti was a patriotic American - far more so than the ICE agent who murdered him on the streets of Minneapolis today. Far more so than Trump, Stephen Miller, or any of them.

Things we need right now —->

January 2026, Group Themed Show, Taking Chances - Red Raven Art Company

If you don't live near Lancaster,PA, the painting and entire show can be viewed online: redravenartcompany.com/january-2026...

Photo of an art panel with the artist using a ruler and charcoal pencil to draw the lines of the harmonic armature directly on to the panel. There is a text panel overlay that reads “It’s been a long time since I covered an entire panel with paint, so I decided to start like I normally would and drew out the harmonic armature.”

Photo of the art panel on the easel with orange lines of the drawing for a painting partially sketched out over the harmonic armature. The artist’s hand and paintbrush are in motion sketching directly on to the panel. The text panel overlay reads “My brain needs structure, and the armature allows me to create dynamic compositions that don’t feel as predictable as the rule of thirds.”

Close up of the painting, further along in the process. The large center of a sunflower can be seen and some of the outer panels. The artist’s hand can be seen entering the frame, upper right, holding a paintbrush and painting final details on a bee. The text panel overlay reads “Pushing paint around was fun, but the most surreal moment for me was painting a bee since I normally draw my insects in graphite.”

Image of the artist holding the completed painting that is framed in black floater frame. She is mostly cropped out of frame so the focus is on the painting. The painting is of a large sunflower with a smaller sunflower behind it to the left. The centers are a muted yellow ochre with pale off white petals. The text overlay reads “This painting is so different from my other work, but it felt good and I had a lot of fun.”

Need a doomscrolling break? This was painted for a thematic group show called Taking Chances. It was a lovely change of pace to be a little freer with paint! See it in person through end of January at Red Raven Art Co. in Lancaster, PA.

#art #sciart #floralart #painting #flowers #sunflowers #joy

Christine is standing at the easel painting a large floral oil painting of purple irises. Her palette of mixed oil colors and brushes can be seen in the foreground.

Why does a new year always feel so good? I've reorganized & cleaned the studio, updated my #Notion workspace, & I'm finalizing my 1st quarter painting plan. What all do you do to start off a new year?

(looked at this #iris #painting yesterday, and I can’t wait for irises to bloom again)

A village image of favorite floral paintings and a few highlight images of magazine features and exhibitions

As #2025 slips away, i want to express #gratitude to all of you who find joy in the work I find joy in creating. Thank you to the galleries that have willingly shown my #paintings to the world. I wish every one of you a 2026 that is full of #joy and wonder and time spent outside in #nature.

Thank you all for being here, you’re all magical flowers. Wishing you all a lovely holiday, and hope you are celebrating in whatever way makes you happiest. 🎄🎁💚❤️🤍

Photo of a cut-paper artwork that depicts: a person with short light brown hair and big blue eyeglasses, in an orange tank top and earrings. The person is pictured at a kind of diagonal angle, on a plain white background.

Same art piece as in previous pic, being held up in the artist's hand so you can see how small it is. (Pretty small.)

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14: for @keristars.bsky.social, here's me in orange.
(Self-portrait based on a selfie in my pijamas + new earrings on Xmas Eve.) 8"ish x 10"ish, December 2020

A trail in the woods with new fallen snow.

#ArtAdventCalendar Day 14

“Tunnel of Fluff”, 2025

#art #artadventcalendar #bloomscrolling
the christmas cactus has been outstanding this year with blooming from before Thanksgiving to now and more to come.

a small square botanical style oil painting with a neutral background and three cosmos flowers. from left, one fully open white one is awaiting and approaching bee, which is drawn in graphite. The middle one is the tallest and is white and just beginning to open. The far right bloom is in a tighter bud but the burgundy petals are visible and barely beginning to open. An ant is crawling up the middle stem.

Feels like forever until cosmos bloom again, but for now I am very much enjoying the snow and below freezing temperatures. I like cozy things too.

Who doesn’t?

Whimsy / 6x6 in. oil & graphite

#art #flowers #painting #botanicalart #sciart #floralpainting #cosmos #ArtAdventCalendar

Oh thank you! Yes, the white of magnolias is very unique.. it's not pure white. Painting from life helps because you can slow down and squint to see the colors that are there. Photos tend to blow out all of that subtle color and just make them look pure white.

A photo of the display of my work. Four botanical paintings of tulips, dahlias, peonies, and magnolias are hanging on the wall. And a table with a red covering is below with an assortment of my floral notebooks (and one snarky skeletal hand flipping the bird notebook)

This photo has three round wood panels with a black border featuring botanical style paintings of dahlias... Gingersnap dahlia, a red mignon seedling, and Platinum Blonde dahlia. Above is a graphic with Whitford at Malvern Flowers, their address: 142 W. King St., Malvern, PA 19355, and phone: 610-647-9311

Painted flowers surrounded by real flowers. Pretty poetic, don't you think?

My art and notebooks can now be found in Malvern, PA at Whitford at Malvern Flowers. 🌸🎉

#art #botanicalart #flowers #floralart #painting #sciart

Thank YOU so much!!!😊

That was my favorite part to paint! Happy someone noticed them, thank you!

Oh that’s the texture of the panel! Not my favorite panel to paint on but it did lend an interesting texture. Thank you!

My painting “Symbiosis”. In the middle is a carnivorous Sundew plant, their small glands emit a sticky sweet attractant to catch insect prey. At first glance, the sundew & frogs seem devious, but there is an element of cooperation in the web of life. #frogart #wildlife #frogs #art #conservationart #ArtAdventCalendar

It’s not too late to do my #ArtAdventCalendar post!

‘Symbiosis’
Acrylic on panel

Cascades frogs hunting prey with the sundew, hidden among mountain wildflowers, as pollinators buzz about.

#artist #natureart #ranacascadae

Watercolor in sketchbook on a table. Glass of beer with plants and Christmas lights in background

Jazz night at Sawstone Brewery. #artadventcalendar #urbansketchers

A warm-grey stone with a portrait of a nightjar painted on it. Behind the nightjar is a full moon. A sprig of foliage reaches in from the left-hand-side. Around the edge of the stone are some other names for the nightjar, such as: evechur, gobble rach and Jenny spinner.

Day ten (!) of #ArtAdventCalendar - December is zooming by.

Here’s a painted stone from a few years ago with one of my all time favourite birds - a nightjar.