Nature’s Calling Collection: My Submission to Two Pages Curtains Contest

Inspiration & Origin

This collection was born from an unhurried afternoon in the garden, the kind that only a small, unhurried visitor can bring. While tending to rows of tomato plants, a blue dragonfly landed nearby and refused to leave. It lingered well past any reasonable expectation, darting from leaf to leaf with a kind of proprietary ease, as if the garden belonged equally to both of us. That unexpected companionship became a quiet invitation to look more closely at everything around it: the layered leaves, the geometry of vine and branch, the way light filtered through foliage.

Inspiration can come from any place, and for me, it almost always arrives through the beauty of nature.

The Creative Process

Once the garden work was done, the moment felt too alive to let pass. Working in watercolor, the medium closest to nature itself in its fluidity and unpredictability, I painted a series of dragonflies and leaf branch studies directly from the experience. The loose, luminous quality of watercolor was essential: it captured the transparency of a dragonfly’s wings, the variation of green in overlapping leaves, and the soft depth of a garden seen through afternoon light.

These hand-painted originals were then translated into a family of coordinating surface patterns — each repeating motif rooted in that original observational energy, scaled and structured for home decor textiles.

Pattern Motifs

Scattered Botanical

Loose tossed branches, freely arranged — the feeling of a garden in motion

Lattice Wreath

Leaf garlands arching into diamond lattices — structured yet organic

Stripe & Vine

Vertical striped columns entwined with climbing leaf stems

Geometric Check

Fine-line grid geometry — an airy, tonal companion print

Colorways

Midnight Garden — deep indigo & charcoal

Summer Sky — soft cerulean & white

Garden Walk — sage, moss & linen

This collection is now available for licensing.