Elizabeth Enders botanical drawings are spontaneously executed with serious intentions.  Enders new series of Petunias are über contemporary, appearing effortless and immediate, her unique stylistic interpretation comes from her long history of drawing and painting rooted in abstraction and language.  The artist’s ability to pare back the information she receives from the specimen enables her to produce sophisticated, clean drawings of plants, purely defining her approach to botanical portraiture.  Seeing a room of her botanical paintings hanging salon style conjures the feeling of walking through a garden at its peak with energy and motion.  They are contemporary to the core and alive.