Sarah Lederman, invitro, Oil on canvas

Sarah Lederman, invitro, Oil on canvas, 60 x 60 cm
Sarah Lederman’s flowers aren’t cut and stuck in a vase, they’re painted as still in the ground and growing. There is a small frog in this painting too, and many frogs’ eggs, as well as two figures at matching scale. This is nature teeming with life, She thinks of ‘the grossness of being covered in frog’s eggs, and of frogs attempting to hump everything – I saw one on a fish’. But that’s also a vision teeming with life and potential life, consistent with Lederman’s personal angle on the flower paintings: in her mid-thirties, she is future-proofing the possibility of having children. So yes, these are very fertile flowers.