Painting with exuberance

In recent days I have been working on some canvasses on the theme of cancer. While looking at ways to convey awareness of breast cancer, which is associated with a pink ribbon, I took a walk with my wife along the bank of the River Lee. It was a pleasant sunny day and we decided to stay as close to the river as possible. Early on in the walk I noticed a profusion of beautiful but unusual flowers which I did not recognise. They look like tall wild orchids with beautiful soft pink flowers and some had a very pale pink almost white flowers. The stalks of the flowers looked like Busy-Lizzy, in that I could see that they were soft stems that needed a lot of water. I decided that these flowers would be the focus for a painting on using pink for breast cancer.

I returned a few days later to photograph the flowers and got some lovely pics. I started on the painting immediately. The shapes of the flowers and leaves had lovely curves and flowing movement to them which seemed to capture and convey feminine shape and movement. I was very pleased with the initial work. Coming to the final stages of the painting I started to put in some red and strong pink colours to the stalks of the flowers. I was amazed by the sense of exuberance and energy that this brought to me and the painting. It completely changed the paiting itself and the feeling that it generated within me. It brought energy and life to a topic that can have a morbid theme.
Initially I planned to have 75% of the canvas filled with the flowers and the remaining space filled with the pink breast cancer ribbon. It didn't work so I erased the ribbon section and painted more flowers but this does not really work either.
I am now thinking of making one of the flowers much bigger to fill the space planned for the ribbon. I'm hoping that the exuberant pink of the flower will capture the essentially feminine nature of breasts and breast cancer and will also convey the energy and exuberance of women.  Capturing human emotions and qualities is always a big challenge in painting.