The Story Behind My Sunflower Painting, Inspired by Dix Park’s Sunflower Fields

Every July, a five-acre field at Dix Park in Raleigh, NC turns gold. That field is where “Sunflowers & Bees,” my original acrylic painting, began. This isn’t a general article about sunflowers. It’s the story of one specific painting — why I made it, how I made it, and what it might mean to have […]