Description
Bouquet II – poppies in a metallic light
Painting on canvas packs the square almost edge to edge with scarlet poppies, each petal built as its own raised ring that throws a small shadow: decorative painting in which the relief does as much work as the colour. The flowers rise from a brown-gold vase in every direction, and the ground behind them is silver-grey and worked rough.
Technique and texture
The paint is laid in thick palette-knife layers, so a petal is a physical ring rather than a drawn shape. The ground is smoothed with wide silver and white sweeps and then flicked with white droplets from a loaded brush. The vase is built from close horizontal bands of brown and gold that read as thrown pottery.
The motif
There are more than twenty open heads, with closed buds set among them on thin stalks. The flowers are flattened and turned square to the viewer with no foreshortening at all, which is what keeps the whole square decorative rather than illusionistic. Leaves and stems are grey-green and barely separate from the ground, so the red carries alone.
Setting and placement
A square settles a wall by itself, and this one gives it a single hot centre. Hang it where the furniture is already grey and white and the red has nothing to argue with.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, thick relief layers laid with a palette knife
- Palette: scarlet, white, grey-green, brown-gold, silver-grey
- Ideal for: living rooms, dining rooms
- Character: dramatic, warm, decorative
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Bouquet II as a square: sizes, stretcher and frame
Bouquet II is painted as a square in 14 sizes, from 40 x 40 to 180 x 180 cm. Let the scarlet poppies cover about two thirds of the furniture width: over a 200 cm sofa the right measure is 130 x 130 or 140 x 140 cm, above a bed 160–180 cm wide, 110 x 110 or 120 x 120 cm, over a 150 cm sideboard 100 x 100 cm, and in a hallway the bouquet on its silver-grey ground needs only 60 x 60 or 70 x 70 cm.
Choose YES in the Stretcher menu and the poppy canvas comes stretched on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. A frame is optional: for Bouquet II the Frame menu opens at Without frame. Delivery takes 15–45 days. Every petal is hand-painted with a knife as a raised ring that throws a small shadow, so this painting is not a print.
Bouquet II: choosing in brief
Which size of Bouquet II goes over a 200 cm sofa?
At 130 x 130 cm the poppies cover about two thirds of the sofa width, and under a high ceiling the scarlet poppies can take 140 x 140 cm.
Is a frame included with Bouquet II?
No, the Frame menu opens at Without frame, and a frame round the silver-grey ground is added only if you want one.
Can I get Bouquet II as a square not among the 14 sizes?
Yes, if no square from 40 x 40 to 180 x 180 cm fits, we paint the poppy bouquet as a painting made to order.
