Bouquet

Emma Ortiz’s Wedding Arrangement 1, Wedding Arrangement 2, and Bouquet are tender tributes to the flowers that shaped both her love story and her artistic journey. Inspired by the playful arrangements at her wedding—kumquats, dancing lady orchids, and freshly opened peonies—these works hold the vibrancy and joy of that moment while tracing a deeper lineage.

For Ortiz, flowers are more than subjects; they are memories in bloom. The same organic forms that adorned her wedding day recall the blossoms that first drew her to painting in the backyard of her childhood home. Through fluid brushwork and luminous color, she captures not just their fleeting beauty, but the emotions they carry—love, celebration, and the quiet magic of time folding in on itself.

Emma Ortiz’s HEARTFELT series is a luminous meditation on memory, love, and transformation. Comprising twelve original oil paintings, the collection unfolds like a personal archive—an outpouring of nurtured creativity shaped by the artist’s recent milestones. Painted in the wake of a honeymoon in Japan, a wedding surrounded by loved ones, and the quiet process of making a home, these works embody the sparkly, fleeting moments that define a life in transition.

Grounded in the softness of recollection, HEARTFELT captures the feeling of trees on the brink of bloom, the delicate imprint of a wedding bouquet, and the awareness of experiencing something you know you’ll miss. Through rich, layered textures and intuitive brushwork, Ortiz preserves these moments beyond memory, distilling them into paintings that hum with warmth, longing, and love.