Description
Painting’s panels dimensions:
50 cm x 50 cm (100 cm x 50 cm)
60 cm x 60 cm (120 cm x 60 cm)
90 cm x 90 cm (180 cm x 90 cm)
White poppy – pale flowers in a silver mist
Wall art sets two square canvases side by side and lays white poppy heads across them. The petals are thickly loaded and almost smooth, the centres green-yellow and serrated. The ground is silver-grey, scattered with fine bright droplets that read as frozen mist. Restrained in colour, strong in surface.
Technique & Texture
The flowers are built with a palette knife: the paint lies in thick, flat slices that stay sharp at the edges. The ground, by contrast, is made of dots and flecks thrown on by spatter, so the light breaks across the whole surface. The stems are pulled with a dry brush and stay translucent.
The Motif
The left canvas holds three larger open heads and two closed buds; the right carries more flowers, set further apart. The stems fall in a dense sheaf and scatter towards the bottom. The green buds are the only saturated accents in an otherwise white and grey field.
Styling & Placement
The neutral palette makes it a painting on canvas that asks nothing of the furniture already in the room, which is what lets it into places where colour would be too much. A bedroom, a bathroom, a consulting room, anywhere the wall should stay quiet.
- Technique: hand-painted painting on canvas, acrylic, palette-knife application and spattered ground
- Palette: white, silver-grey, anthracite, moss green
- Ideal for: bedrooms, bathrooms, consulting rooms
- Character: clean, quiet, fresh
Two squares side by side need little wall and plenty of light: consider the larger size too.
The White Poppy painting: two square canvases of pale poppy heads
The White Poppy painting is a pair of 2 square panels hung side by side, in 3 landscape sizes. The sizes in the menu are the total of both poppy squares, so each panel is 50 cm wide and 50 cm tall at 100 x 50 cm, 60 cm wide and 60 cm tall at 120 x 60 cm, and 90 cm wide and 90 cm tall at 180 x 90 cm. Above a 180 cm bed, choose 120 x 60 cm, above a 150 cm chest of drawers, 100 x 50 cm, and above a 270 cm sofa, 180 x 90 cm.
Each panel with its silver-grey ground arrives stretched on its own wooden stretcher, included in the price, ready to hang without a frame. Hang the two poppy canvases side by side with a narrow gap, centred over the bed or sofa. Delivery takes 15–45 days. The White Poppy flowers are hand-painted with a palette knife in thick, flat slices, so the painting is not a print.
Questions about the White Poppy painting
Which size of the White Poppy painting fits above a bed?
Above a 180 cm bed, choose the 120 x 60 cm pair; its two poppy panels together are 120 cm wide, about two thirds of the bed.
Does the White Poppy painting arrive ready to hang?
Yes, both square poppy canvases arrive without a frame, stretched on wooden stretchers included in the price.
Can I order the White Poppy painting in a different size?
Yes, we paint the white poppies on their silver-grey ground as a painting made to order to your measurements.
Is the White Poppy painting a print?
No, the poppy petals are laid on with a palette knife in thick slices, and the droplets on the ground are spattered by hand.
