Description
Flowers in a Vase I – a downy mass over a mosaic vase
Painting on canvas heaps small creamy yellow flowers into a mass above a trapezoid vase whose surface is broken into dark brown mosaic — decorative painting with no single focal point, because every blossom in the cluster is too small to claim one. The ground behind is grey-white at the top and warm brown below, worked in the same relief.
Technique and texture
Behind the flowers the surface is broken into irregular flat blocks that meet like dried earth, each one ringed by a lip the knife raised as it left. Every petal is a short press of the brush, so the paint stays thick and is never smoothed. The vase was made with the same blocky handling and differs from the ground in colour alone — a bronze brown against the warm one behind it.
The motif
The cluster is wider than it is tall and opens downward at either side, as though its own weight were pulling it apart. Grey-green leaves show between the blossoms but stay subordinate to the white and yellow. The vase sits low at the centre and stands shorter than the flowers, which keeps the whole of the attention above it.
Setting and placement
Creams and neutrals of this kind attach themselves to almost any furniture and ask for no particular wall. Natural materials suit them best — a dining room, a bedroom or a living room with wood and linen in it.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, knife-built block relief, petals pressed one at a time, mosaic vase
- Palette: creamy yellow, white, grey-white, warm brown, bronze brown
- Ideal for: dining rooms, bedrooms, living rooms
- Character: soft, neutral, tactile
Choose the size that suits your wall.
Flowers in a Vase I over a table, bed or sofa
Flowers in a Vase I is painted in 17 landscape sizes, from 45 x 30 to 260 x 175 cm. Over a 150 cm dining table the creamy yellow cluster works at 100 x 66 cm, over a 180 cm bed at 120 x 80 cm, and over a 200 cm sofa at 130 x 85 or 140 x 93 cm – each time about two thirds of the furniture’s width. A long hallway can also take 160 x 105 cm. With YES under Stretcher, the canvas with its mosaic vase arrives on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang. A frame for Flowers in a Vase I is optional, and the Frame menu starts at Without frame. Delivery takes 15–45 days.
The Flowers in a Vase I painting is hand-painted on canvas, each petal was set down with a short press of the brush and the paint stays thick, so it is not a print.
Flowers in a Vase I: questions and answers
Which size of Flowers in a Vase I suits a dining table?
Above a 150 cm dining table, choose 100 x 66 cm; over a longer table, 110 x 73 or 120 x 80 cm.
Does Flowers in a Vase I arrive ready to hang?
Yes, once you pick YES under Stretcher, the canvas with its creamy yellow flowers and bronze-brown vase is stretched on a wooden stretcher before dispatch.
How long does delivery of Flowers in a Vase I take?
For all 17 sizes, from 45 x 30 to 260 x 175 cm, delivery takes 15–45 days.
