Acrylic on Wood Panel | 11×14 inches | 1⅞" Deep | Custom Framed in Maple Oak Floater Frame | 2023 | Nature as a Cosmos Series
Feel it before you see it.
That particular quality of a summer garden when the wind moves through — the grasses bending and catching the light simultaneously, the tall fennel clouds trembling at their stems, everything in gentle, constant, barely perceptible motion. Summer Breeze captures that sensation with the full confidence of an artist who has stood in exactly this spot, at exactly this hour, and understood that what was happening in front of them was worth stopping for.
Deep crimson helenium burns in the upper left, their dark-centred faces turning toward a light source just beyond the frame. Zinnias cluster in warm pink and yellow at the lower edge, generous and unhurried. Purple allium heads punctuate the middle ground like small planets in a green universe, their perfect spherical forms a beautiful counterpoint to the loose, wind-swept energy of the grasses that dominate the centre of the composition. And above it all — those luminous yellow fennel umbels, dissolving softly into the light the way they do in late afternoon when the sun comes from the side and turns everything it touches briefly, impossibly golden.
This is the garden as a living system — every plant in its place, every plant in conversation with every other, the whole complex ecology of a well-tended border expressing itself in a single afternoon of wind and light and colour. The Nature as a Cosmos series finds its subject precisely here — not in the grand gesture or the exotic location, but in the backyard, the border, the ordinary extraordinary abundance of a summer garden doing what summer gardens have always done.
The impressionistic brushwork suits the subject perfectly — loose, energetic marks that capture movement rather than freeze it, that suggest rather than describe, that invite the eye to complete the picture the way the mind completes a half-heard melody. Up close the surface is a rich tapestry of mark and colour. From across the room it resolves into a afternoon of wind and light that you can almost feel on your face.
Presented in a beautiful custom maple oak floater frame that complements the warmth of the palette perfectly, Summer Breeze arrives completely finished and ready to hang.
✦ Original, one-of-a-kind painting ✦ Acrylic on wood panel ✦ 11 × 14 inches | 1⅞" deep ✦ Custom framed in maple oak floater frame ✦ Created 2023 ✦ Part of the Nature as a Cosmos series ✦ Ready to hang ✦ Free worldwide shipping ✦ $550
Wind. Light. A garden at its peak. All of it, caught.
Acrylic on Wood Panel | 11×14 inches | 1⅞" Deep | Custom Framed in Maple Oak Floater Frame | 2023 | Nature as a Cosmos Series
Feel it before you see it.
That particular quality of a summer garden when the wind moves through — the grasses bending and catching the light simultaneously, the tall fennel clouds trembling at their stems, everything in gentle, constant, barely perceptible motion. Summer Breeze captures that sensation with the full confidence of an artist who has stood in exactly this spot, at exactly this hour, and understood that what was happening in front of them was worth stopping for.
Deep crimson helenium burns in the upper left, their dark-centred faces turning toward a light source just beyond the frame. Zinnias cluster in warm pink and yellow at the lower edge, generous and unhurried. Purple allium heads punctuate the middle ground like small planets in a green universe, their perfect spherical forms a beautiful counterpoint to the loose, wind-swept energy of the grasses that dominate the centre of the composition. And above it all — those luminous yellow fennel umbels, dissolving softly into the light the way they do in late afternoon when the sun comes from the side and turns everything it touches briefly, impossibly golden.
This is the garden as a living system — every plant in its place, every plant in conversation with every other, the whole complex ecology of a well-tended border expressing itself in a single afternoon of wind and light and colour. The Nature as a Cosmos series finds its subject precisely here — not in the grand gesture or the exotic location, but in the backyard, the border, the ordinary extraordinary abundance of a summer garden doing what summer gardens have always done.
The impressionistic brushwork suits the subject perfectly — loose, energetic marks that capture movement rather than freeze it, that suggest rather than describe, that invite the eye to complete the picture the way the mind completes a half-heard melody. Up close the surface is a rich tapestry of mark and colour. From across the room it resolves into a afternoon of wind and light that you can almost feel on your face.
Presented in a beautiful custom maple oak floater frame that complements the warmth of the palette perfectly, Summer Breeze arrives completely finished and ready to hang.
✦ Original, one-of-a-kind painting ✦ Acrylic on wood panel ✦ 11 × 14 inches | 1⅞" deep ✦ Custom framed in maple oak floater frame ✦ Created 2023 ✦ Part of the Nature as a Cosmos series ✦ Ready to hang ✦ Free worldwide shipping ✦ $550
Wind. Light. A garden at its peak. All of it, caught.
