Description
Flowers I – eight heads over a silver mist
Wall art spreads eight open heads across the width of the canvas and leaves enough bare ground between them that each one is read on its own: painting on canvas whose rhythm depends on that spacing rather than on the flowers themselves. Every head has four crumpled petals and a round centre rimmed with white dragged outward on a dry brush.
Technique and texture
The petals are laid in thick sculptural layers that curl up above the plane along the outer edge, so each flower casts its own shadow. The white is rubbed into red while it is still soft, which is why the transition is combed rather than drawn. The ground behind it is beaten and pressed, then spattered with fine white drops.
The motif
The heads are not aligned in a row: some are open and turned square out, others closed into long buds on thin grey-green stems. Most centres are green and two are yellow, put in with small dots — the only precisely drawn part of the canvas. The stems cross behind the heads without gathering into a bunch.
Setting and placement
The shape is markedly elongated and needs a long unbroken wall — above a sofa, a bed or a chest. It reads as fresh and decisive rather than sentimental, and it works against grey plaster, concrete and pale timber.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, sculptural impasto, dry-brush dragging, beaten ground
- Palette: carmine red, white, silver-grey, grey-green, yellow
- Ideal for: living rooms, bedrooms, hallways
- Character: fresh, rhythmic, decisive
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Flowers I for a long, unbroken wall
Flowers I comes in 14 markedly elongated sizes, from 100 x 40 to 340 x 115 cm. Let the eight carmine heads stretch across roughly two thirds of the furniture beneath them: 130 x 44 cm over a 200 cm sofa, 100 x 40 cm above a bed 160 cm wide, 160 x 54 cm over a 240 cm dining table, and 220 x 75 cm along a long hallway.
Choose YES in the Stretcher menu and the landscape canvas of Flowers I with its silver-grey ground comes stretched on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. A frame is optional for Flowers I, and the Frame menu opens at Without frame. Delivery takes 15–45 days. The crumpled petals are hand-painted in thick layers that curl up above the canvas at the edge, so Flowers I is not a print.
Questions about Flowers I
Which size of Flowers I suits a sofa?
Over a 200 cm sofa, the eight carmine flowers at 130 x 44 cm cover two thirds of its length.
What should I choose for a 160 cm bed with Flowers I?
The elongated 100 x 40 cm format above the headboard gives the flower heads room to breathe and stays within two thirds of the bed.
Does Flowers I come stretched and ready to hang?
Yes, with YES chosen in the Stretcher menu the canvas with the carmine flowers is stretched on a wooden stretcher.
Can I order Flowers I in another size?
Besides the 14 formats from 100 x 40 to 340 x 115 cm, we paint the eight flower heads as a custom-size painting in your measurements.
