Girls & Hats

When Ouida first moved to her home studio in West Palm Beach there was a farm nearby where she would draw the flowers and vegetables gardens.  She started a series of paintings of women in exotic clothing representing different flowers as the Hollyhock or Iris or Peony. Another popular series consisted of women in all kinds of different hats. She then started a series of little girls, often adding one of her English Springer Spaniels puppies that she raised and trained for the show ring.  Ouida’s own trellis garden was the background for many for many of these paintings.