Tania Kovats, Last of my summer blooms, no.13, 2023, Dahlia flower on paper
framed size: 49 x 37cm paper size: 35.5 x 28cm, part of an ongoing series
No.6 is also available to purchase.
These works, made with dahlias from Tania Kovats’ garden in Devon, have a particular personal meaning, as Kovats explains: ‘The natural dyes of the blooms are released and stain the paper, while the petals merge with the fibres of the paper. As they dry, they are fixed as these beautiful ghost flowers, quiet memorials to the sweet joys and melancholy of late summer. I started to make these works as I became postmenopausal. The works mark the end of my body’s fertility and my menstrual cycle stopping; a clock that has been keeping regular time since I was ten years old. Text by Paul Carey-Kent
