11” x 14”
Acrylic on Canvas
The Spring Bee Collection
Surreal, Visionary
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This surreal painting shows a bumblebee suspended in a luminous sky of lavender, pink, and gold, her kaleidoscopic eyes of pinks, lavenders, electric blues and violets along with her glowing wings give her an otherworldly presence. From her back rises a miniature fungal world: a broad Parasol Mushroom anchoring the cluster, the eerie Bleeding Tooth fungus weeping red droplets, a layered fan of Turkey Tail tucked beneath the bee’s wing to symbolize resilience, a delicate Inky Cap dissolving with impermanence, and three rare blue albino psilocybin mushrooms glowing softly like portals to higher vision—along with several other curious species completing this mystical garden.
Together, these mushrooms span the spectrum of life—sustenance, mystery, decay, medicine, and transcendence—transforming the bee into more than a pollinator. She becomes a messenger of cycles, carrying nature’s strange beauty and hidden consciousness across a dreamlike sky.
Tags: Mushrooms, Bumblebees, Pollinator
This piece is one of the first nine paintings in my Spring Bee Collection. It was this mushroom series within the collection that first sparked my deeper interest in studying fungi—their forms, symbolism, and their role in the cycles of life, decay, and transcendence. Each bee in the series became more than a pollinator; they carried entire hidden worlds on their backs, weaving together imagination, nature, and transformation.
In this painting, a surreal garden of mushrooms emerges: a broad parasol, the strange bleeding tooth fungus, layered turkey tail, eerie inky cap, and rare blue albino psilocybin glowing like portals to higher vision. Together they embody sustenance, mystery, impermanence, and transcendence, turning the bee into a messenger of cycles and unseen consciousness.
Before the piece was even finished, my good friend Tiffany fell in love with it and purchased it. She unknowingly had the honor of naming the work, as my notes kept circling around ‘Tiffany’s bee.’” As I finalized it, my studio notes were filled with reminders like “finish Tiffany’s bee” and “remember to sign Tiffany’s bee.” Somewhere in the process, the name simply became its identity. What began as a surreal vision of a bee carrying a world of mushrooms became Tiffany—a piece bound to friendship, synchronicity, and the personal stories that connect us to art.
