Suneel Mehta of Plant Curator says:

At the recent Essex Art Club exhibition, I came across these charming and evocative flower paintings in acrylics by Anna Bisset. And the artist herself. I had the advantage of the artist’s presentation when I was introduced to the images. Anna told me that the flowers had been arranged and done in memory of her mother passing away. Every year she paints the bouquets around the spring time, when life is emerging out of death, when hope is emerging out of loss. The biographical detail is that Anna’s mother loved flowers and was in charge of the flowers at her local church.

The thoughts and the mourning here are ancient. In the myth of Demeter and Persephone, the daughter who is the spring is abducted by Hades the god of death and the underworld when she is picking flowers. Persephone has to be rescued to bring back the spring and the flowers to humankind. Demeter’s mourning, the mother’s mourning, is curtailed through the rescue, although it only fades away for six months when her daughter is present.

https://plantcurator.com/anna-bissets-flower-paintings-in-memory/