Rosalind Wise: Flower Cycle 1000-Piece Jigsaw Puzzle

Rosalind Wise (British, b. 1949) Flower Cycle Rosalind Wise’s spectacular Flower Cycle—painted on a canvas nearly seven feet high and eight feet wide—overflows with colorful blooms so fresh and delicately detailed, one can almost sense their fragrance. The composition of the painting is based on the seasons: the snowdrop, appears at the center, around which circle spring and summer blossomsin the order in which they flower. Other blooms of late summer adorn the outer reaches of the canvas. The design, organization, and painting of Flower Cycle, reproduced for this 1,000-piece puzzle, took Wise many months to complete.

Rosalind Wise

From exquisite portraits of single blooms to her Flower Cycle masterpiece, Rosalind Wise (British, b. 1949) takes inspiration from nature, painting scenes of gardens and meadows, ponds and paths on canvases typically four to five feet across. Her early work focused on small, singular bits of the natural world. These days, Wise says, her response “is to the colour, tone and movement found there. It is to the tip or balance between order and chaos, freedom or restraint, things separate yet mingling together, all part of the expressive whole.” A native of South Wales, Wise now lives in Gloucestershire, painting a reality that exists outside modern life’s constant consumerism. Her goal is to reconnect us with the beauty and magic of existence.