70 × 50cm
27.6 × 19.7in
Acrylic, oil pastels, and collage on canvas. Shipped unframed. Fully insured shipping via DHL.
This sale is active only during February 1–28
All sales are final. This is a limited studio sale with discounted pricing. Shipping is scheduled for the first week of March and is not immediate. No refunds, returns, or exchanges will be accepted.
“When I began this piece, I wasn’t thinking about symbolism. I was thinking about flowers, or more precisely, about the strange discipline needed to study them. Flowers demand a particular kind of attention: they are both simple and excessive, soft yet structurally insistent. In painting them, I found myself confronting the problem of texture, how to make the surface speak without overwhelming the form.
The central bloom in Flora became a kind of experiment. Its brightness was not something I planned; it rose naturally out of the layered strokes, each one attempting to articulate a texture that could never be fully captured. Flowers resist translation. Their softness is deceptive, and their fragility often masks an unexpectedly rigorous architecture.
I realized, while working, that studying a flower is also studying fear. Not fear in the dramatic sense, but the quieter fear of impermanence, of surfaces that will inevitably collapse. Texture became a way of approaching this truth indirectly. The more I layered, the more the flower seemed to confront its own transience, as if every stroke was an acknowledgment that beauty is temporary precisely because it is built from such delicate material.
In the end, Flora is less a representation than an inquiry. The nightmare-like tension at its edges is simply the residue of paying close attention, to form, to fragility, to the subtle negotiations between softness and structure. Texture, in this context, becomes a record of looking: of noticing what resists permanence, and of choosing to paint it anyway.” - Antonia xx
70 × 50cm
27.6 × 19.7in
Acrylic, oil pastels, and collage on canvas. Shipped unframed. Fully insured shipping via DHL.
This sale is active only during February 1–28
All sales are final. This is a limited studio sale with discounted pricing. Shipping is scheduled for the first week of March and is not immediate. No refunds, returns, or exchanges will be accepted.
“When I began this piece, I wasn’t thinking about symbolism. I was thinking about flowers, or more precisely, about the strange discipline needed to study them. Flowers demand a particular kind of attention: they are both simple and excessive, soft yet structurally insistent. In painting them, I found myself confronting the problem of texture, how to make the surface speak without overwhelming the form.
The central bloom in Flora became a kind of experiment. Its brightness was not something I planned; it rose naturally out of the layered strokes, each one attempting to articulate a texture that could never be fully captured. Flowers resist translation. Their softness is deceptive, and their fragility often masks an unexpectedly rigorous architecture.
I realized, while working, that studying a flower is also studying fear. Not fear in the dramatic sense, but the quieter fear of impermanence, of surfaces that will inevitably collapse. Texture became a way of approaching this truth indirectly. The more I layered, the more the flower seemed to confront its own transience, as if every stroke was an acknowledgment that beauty is temporary precisely because it is built from such delicate material.
In the end, Flora is less a representation than an inquiry. The nightmare-like tension at its edges is simply the residue of paying close attention, to form, to fragility, to the subtle negotiations between softness and structure. Texture, in this context, becomes a record of looking: of noticing what resists permanence, and of choosing to paint it anyway.” - Antonia xx
