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The Secret Life of Plants

2024 to 2026

Square painting in two vertical panels of dense dark green and grey growth, with pale yellow bursts, small looped marks and a row of seed heads along the top.
Powerful Plants, 2025 · Oil on canvas · 200 × 200 cm (diptych)
“I am interested in finding structures within things that initially appear to have none, structures that can give me a starting point from which to paint, experiment and continue.”
Ima Montoya, artist statement, 2026

The Secret Life of Plants is Ima Montoya’s newest series. Botanical tangles spread across the canvas in deep reds and pinks, greens and near-black grounds, with seed heads, blooms and thick, crusted surfaces.

The series shares its title with a 2024 painting from Crossing Water, now in the collection of Stephen F. Austin State University in Texas.

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