Poem/Painting pairs: Megan Willome collaborations | Nan Henke

• Tiny Wildflowers: Stemless Four-Nerve Daisy

  Acrylic, Paper, 7 x 5. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Together, we e…

• Tiny Wildflowers: Dwarf Verbena

  Acrylic, Paper, 7 x 5. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Together, we e…

• Tiny Wildflowers: Heller's Plantain

  Acrylic, Paper, 8 x 8. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Together, we e…

• Tiny wildflowers: willow leaf, lettuce, painting, and poem

  Acrylic, Paper, 8 x 8. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Together, we e…

• Tiny Wildflowers: Drummond’s Onion, framed painting and poem

  Acrylic, Paper, 8 x 8. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Together, we e…

• Tiny Wildflowers: Lady Bird’s Centaury, watercolor and poem

  Watercolor and Ink, Paper, 6 x 4. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Tog…

• Tiny Wildflowers: Sword Leaf Blue Eyed Grass, painting and poem

  Watercolor, Paper, 4 x 6. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Together, w…

• Tiny Wildflowers: Southern Annual Saltmarsh Aster, painting and poem.

  Acrylic, Paper, 8 x 8. Tiny Wildflowers is the name of my recent Featured Artist show at the Fredericksburg Art Guild, my second collaboration with Fredericksburg poet Megan Willome (www.MeganWillome.com) Together, we e…

• Tiny Wildflowers (detail, teal background) digital painting, price shown is for XL on canvas

  Choose paper or canvas. Local poet Megan Willome and I are collaborating again on an art show. This one is called Tiny Wildflowers, celebrating the small flowers we too often miss (and too often call weeds). In Megan’s…

• Tiny Wildflowers, detail on purple

  Choose paper or canvas, 10 x 8. Local poet Megan Willome and I are collaborating again on an art show. This one is called Tiny Wildflowers, celebrating the small flowers we too often miss (and too often call weeds). In…

• Thomas Drummond, 1834 botanist

  Choose paper or canvas. Local Fredericksburg TX poet Megan Willome and I are collaborating again on an art show. This one is called Tiny Wildflowers, celebrating the small flowers we too often miss (and too often call w…

• Peach (Includes a poem by Megan Willome)

  Acrylic, Canvas, 6 x 6 x 1.5. Fredericksburg Texas is known as a peach growing area and in the summer we all haunt the roadside stands. Megan expressed it best in her poem 2nd image.). Portrait of a local peach on a gal…

• Big Sky (includes a poem by Megan Willome)

  Acrylic, Canvas, 40 x 28 x 1.5. This skyscape over the Texas Hill Country with stair step clouds was created in response to Megan Willome’s poem, Sky over Hills. The painting wraps around the sides of the 40x28x1.5 inch…

• Cypress with a Megan Willome poem

  Watercolor, Paper, 14 x 11. If you have sat on a hot summer day near the foot of a towering cypress tree, staring at the green water and the roots of the cypress emerging from it, you probably have had some of the same…

• Rainbow Crow with a Megan Willome poem

  Watercolor, Paper, 5 x 7. Rainbow Crow is the title of Megan Willome’s book of short poems about crows (which, by the way, are pretty amazing creatures.) It is also the title of her poem about an American Indian legend…

• Did You Grow Up with These Bowls? (and electric mixer) with a Megan Willome poem

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 8. Megan’s poem is about her grandmother who, like my aunt, had a spaceship themed pink hand mixer. And it seems like every family in America had the set of brightly colored pyrex mixing bowls. J…

• Baby Pomegranate with a Megan Willome Poem

  Watercolor, Paper, 7 x 5. I was playing with negative painted backgrounds and this angular one made a great contrast to the shiny round baby pomegranate. Megan’s poem touches on how pomegranates get so juicy. Poem as sh…

• Standout Poppies with a Megan Willome poem

  Watercolor, Paper, 10 x 8. During wildflower season in the Texas Hill Country, it is possible to see SO MANY wildflowers that the all become a blur... and then one flower jumps out at you. It is a standout because of th…

• But what is the Cure for Laundry? two paintings with a Megan Willome poem

  Acrylic, Canvas, 16 x 12. The poem is titled ‘The Cure for Writer’s Block’ and was written by my show collaborator Megan Willome. It was first published in her book, The Joy of Poetry. I fell in love with the poem and h…