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"Ilka Gedő, as shown by the "Rose garden series", found great delight in observing the life of plants, like the great painter of Romanticism, P. O. Runge had. She read and densely underlined his writings. The sense of nostalgia which caused her to turn towards plants, may also be compared to the plant cult of Art Noveau artists. During her stay in Paris 1969-1970, she spent most of her time in the Jardin des Plantes and in the Luxembourg garden. The perfect harmony in natural and man-made environments in the French capital might have played an important role in her artistic renewal. Her plant series bears witness to her sensitive observations of certain flowers' tall and slender stems, multicoloured flower bodies, and leaves and petals that constantly changed form in the blowing of the wind. Her "Rose garden" paintings represent a multitude of colours and endless variations of organic forms. In one of those paintings, besides the flower that is drawn on a planar background, the colours are also written in words. This was an open confession of her working method." In: The Art of Ilka Gedő, 1997, p. 42)
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