Art - LEE E. CART author • artist

LEE E. CART author • artist

Natural Impressions

Natural Impressions explores the patterns, textures, colors, and abstractions hidden within the natural world. Photographed at close range and removed from their larger context, familiar subjects become something unexpected—sometimes botanical, sometimes painterly, and sometimes almost impossible to identify.

Close-up photograph of a yellow iris stamen surrounded by purple and white patterned petals.

Close-up photograph of curved orange-brown stamens against a bright yellow daylily petal.

Close-up photograph of the center of a pink Rosa rugosa flower with cream-colored stamens.

Close-up photograph of dark woodpecker holes creating an irregular pattern across pale weathered wood.

Close-up photograph of deeply textured gray cedar bark forming vertical ridges and folds.

Close-up photograph of tangled pale sea grass forming fine overlapping lines and textures.

Close-up photograph of weathered golden-brown wood grain forming flowing, flame-like patterns.

Close-up photograph of dark intersecting fissures crossing a pale granite surface.

$Close-up photograph of angular fractures and intersecting lines in blue-gray and brown granite.$

Close-up photograph of a sunflower center forming a dense spiral pattern of golden-green seeds.

Close-up photograph of clustered barnacles and marine growth forming an intricate yellow, black, and cream pattern.

Close-up photograph of wet sand patterned with delicate ripples and branching marks left by water.