The story behind

Leigh Cooke is a watercolorist from England, but that seems to go without saying... After all, it was 18th-century England that gave this art form its noble reputation. The watercolor charms with its transparency, fluidity, and lightness, a perfect mastery of movement that no amount of remorse can erase, and the poetry conveyed by its immediacy. Leigh Cooke's delicate lines and subtle use of shade and color perfectly capture the fragility of wildflowers. They reveal his message: "I love flowers, and I think flowers love me," he says. A stroke of genius as British as its author!