"Flor de Vida" by Leslee Adams

“Flor de Vida” official commemorative tote in gold. 18” x 18” on soft, durable, poly-poplin fabric with 1” wide shoulder straps, featuring Indian Wells Arts Festival artist Leslee Adams’s celebrated commemorative print of her original watercolor painting on canvas. Machine washable in cold water. Known as The Watercolor Chef, Leslee is lauded for her bold watercolors of food, stunning landscapes, and beautiful florals. As a Parisian-trained Ritz Escoffier pastry chef, Leslee mingles her love of texture and color from the plate to the easel, perhaps best demonstrated through her incorporation into “Flor de Vida” of edible plants native to the desert. Dainty pink flowers blossom atop a cluster of Prickly Pear cacti, which she also uses in her culinary enterprises for her famed Prickly Pear Sorbet and traditional Nopales. Centered is the flowering Agave, widely known for being the source of Tequila and its nectar used as a natural sweetener. Surrounded by whimsical stalks of Ocotillo, savory Purple Sage ground cover and succulents, tiny but essential bees buzz throughout collecting the pollen responsible for the renowned desert superblooms and everyday life that finds its way to spring up.