Acrylic on Wood Panel | 12×12 inches | Custom Framed in Maple Oak Floater Frame | Nature as a Cosmos Series
Not every painting celebrates the peak.
Wilting Rose of Sharon turns its attention to the moment after — the bloom past its height, petals loosening their grip on the day, the whole magnificent enterprise of flowering beginning its quiet return to the green world from which it came. And in that ending, something unexpected happens. The painting becomes more beautiful, not less.
The Rose of Sharon — Hibiscus syriacus — is one of those generous, abundant shrubs that flowers prolifically and briefly, each bloom lasting only a single day before giving way to the next. To paint it wilting is not to paint failure. It is to paint the truth of how it lives — in rapid, extravagant succession, each flower complete in itself, each ending immediately followed by a beginning. The spent white petals warm to ochre and cream at their edges. The deep green foliage presses forward with the vigour of a plant that has no intention of stopping. And at the very top of the composition, just visible — a slip of blue sky, the world continuing beyond the frame.
This is the Nature as a Cosmos series at its most intimate and honest. Not the grand gesture, not the overwhelming abundance of a 76 inch canvas, but a single quiet moment of observation — an artist stopping in front of a shrub in late summer and deciding that this, exactly this, deserves paint and attention and a panel of birch wood and a place on a wall where someone can live with it every day.
Presented in a beautiful custom maple oak floater frame that allows the painting to sit forward from the wall with gallery presence, Wilting Rose of Sharon arrives completely finished and ready to hang — a small painting with a quiet confidence and a subject that rewards every looking.
✦ Original, one-of-a-kind painting ✦ Acrylic on wood panel ✦ 12 × 12 inches ✦ Custom framed in maple oak floater frame ✦ Part of the Nature as a Cosmos series ✦ Ready to hang ✦ Free worldwide shipping ✦ $550
The bloom passes. The beauty remains.
Acrylic on Wood Panel | 12×12 inches | Custom Framed in Maple Oak Floater Frame | Nature as a Cosmos Series
Not every painting celebrates the peak.
Wilting Rose of Sharon turns its attention to the moment after — the bloom past its height, petals loosening their grip on the day, the whole magnificent enterprise of flowering beginning its quiet return to the green world from which it came. And in that ending, something unexpected happens. The painting becomes more beautiful, not less.
The Rose of Sharon — Hibiscus syriacus — is one of those generous, abundant shrubs that flowers prolifically and briefly, each bloom lasting only a single day before giving way to the next. To paint it wilting is not to paint failure. It is to paint the truth of how it lives — in rapid, extravagant succession, each flower complete in itself, each ending immediately followed by a beginning. The spent white petals warm to ochre and cream at their edges. The deep green foliage presses forward with the vigour of a plant that has no intention of stopping. And at the very top of the composition, just visible — a slip of blue sky, the world continuing beyond the frame.
This is the Nature as a Cosmos series at its most intimate and honest. Not the grand gesture, not the overwhelming abundance of a 76 inch canvas, but a single quiet moment of observation — an artist stopping in front of a shrub in late summer and deciding that this, exactly this, deserves paint and attention and a panel of birch wood and a place on a wall where someone can live with it every day.
Presented in a beautiful custom maple oak floater frame that allows the painting to sit forward from the wall with gallery presence, Wilting Rose of Sharon arrives completely finished and ready to hang — a small painting with a quiet confidence and a subject that rewards every looking.
✦ Original, one-of-a-kind painting ✦ Acrylic on wood panel ✦ 12 × 12 inches ✦ Custom framed in maple oak floater frame ✦ Part of the Nature as a Cosmos series ✦ Ready to hang ✦ Free worldwide shipping ✦ $550
The bloom passes. The beauty remains.
