Rebecca Allan's paintings are informed by her practice as a horticulturalist, garden designer, and conservationist. Her work highlights how we simultaneously tend, tame, encroach upon, and honor the natural world.

Allan’s paintings are sensitive to the specifics of place, always depicting locations she has personally visited, and at times conflating more than one such place. Depicted here is the Rhode Island specialty plant nursery Issima, a treasured source for garden designers. The "cultivars" in the title describes a plant that has been bred or selected by humans for desirable characteristics. The upper left corner of the painting introduces Mount Baker from Washington State, behind a small burn pile that alludes to both managed and natural cycles of fire.