Acrylic on Wood Panel | 8×8 inches | 2025 | Nature as a Cosmos Series
This little painting came first.
Before the large 36×36 inch Himalayan Blue Poppy — before the expansive canvas, the grand scale, the fully realised statement work — there was this. Eight inches of wood panel. A single bloom. The first conversation between artist and subject, painted with the full intensity and devotion of someone who has just encountered something extraordinary and needed immediately to understand it through paint.
It was so successful that it demanded to be made large.
That origin story lives in every mark on this panel. The blue — that impossible, legendary, Himalayan blue that early Western explorers refused to believe was real — glows with an intimacy that only small scale painting achieves. Up close, inches from the surface, you can see every decision, every loaded brushstroke, every moment where the paint became the petal and the petal became the paint. The red stamens blaze at the heart of the flower like tiny embers. The deep green darkness of the background presses close, making the blue luminous by contrast, the way the high alpine darkness of the Himalayas makes the real flower glow against the mountain sky.
This is the Himalayan Blue Poppy at its most distilled — all the rarity, all the legend, all the breathtaking specificity of one of nature's most extraordinary creations, held in the palm of your hand.
The Himalayan Blue Poppy series now exists at two scales — the large 36×36 inch canvas painting at $4,800, and this intimate 8×8 inch panel. For the collector who feels the pull of this extraordinary flower and wants to live with it daily — on a desk, a shelf, a bedside table, an altar — this is your painting.
✦ Original, one-of-a-kind painting ✦ Acrylic on wood panel ✦ 8 × 8 inches ✦ Created 2025 ✦ Part of the Nature as a Cosmos series ✦ Ready to hang or display ✦ Free worldwide shipping ✦ $475
The first conversation. The one that started everything.
Acrylic on Wood Panel | 8×8 inches | 2025 | Nature as a Cosmos Series
This little painting came first.
Before the large 36×36 inch Himalayan Blue Poppy — before the expansive canvas, the grand scale, the fully realised statement work — there was this. Eight inches of wood panel. A single bloom. The first conversation between artist and subject, painted with the full intensity and devotion of someone who has just encountered something extraordinary and needed immediately to understand it through paint.
It was so successful that it demanded to be made large.
That origin story lives in every mark on this panel. The blue — that impossible, legendary, Himalayan blue that early Western explorers refused to believe was real — glows with an intimacy that only small scale painting achieves. Up close, inches from the surface, you can see every decision, every loaded brushstroke, every moment where the paint became the petal and the petal became the paint. The red stamens blaze at the heart of the flower like tiny embers. The deep green darkness of the background presses close, making the blue luminous by contrast, the way the high alpine darkness of the Himalayas makes the real flower glow against the mountain sky.
This is the Himalayan Blue Poppy at its most distilled — all the rarity, all the legend, all the breathtaking specificity of one of nature's most extraordinary creations, held in the palm of your hand.
The Himalayan Blue Poppy series now exists at two scales — the large 36×36 inch canvas painting at $4,800, and this intimate 8×8 inch panel. For the collector who feels the pull of this extraordinary flower and wants to live with it daily — on a desk, a shelf, a bedside table, an altar — this is your painting.
✦ Original, one-of-a-kind painting ✦ Acrylic on wood panel ✦ 8 × 8 inches ✦ Created 2025 ✦ Part of the Nature as a Cosmos series ✦ Ready to hang or display ✦ Free worldwide shipping ✦ $475
The first conversation. The one that started everything.
