Moss Rose - 107 × 107 × 4 cm / 42.1 × 42.1 × 1.6 in
I love dark green because it never hurries. Moss grows without effort, a forest floor keeps its silence, and the eye rests there without being asked. I named this painting after the moss rose, an old garden rose whose buds are wrapped in soft green moss, as if the plant had decided to keep a little of the forest around every flower. Top notes: green leaf, cool dew, a first breath of lime light. Heart: creamy white rose, dusty pink haze. Base: deep moss, plum leaves, raw linen, stillness. Working on the floor, on raw linen, I let the branches rise from the lower right and spread across a deep moss green field. I shaped each cream-white rose with a small fruit knife from my wedding cutlery set until it seemed to glow from within, and placed every leaf with the palette knife, sage green and dark plum, thick enough to throw its own small shadow. The branches I could only begin. Behind them I sprayed an iridescent red that the eye reads as dusty pink, shifting softly as the light or the viewer moves, and close to the surface there is the cool, earthy calm of a garden after rain. There is a stillness that does not need to be made, only noticed, and flowers seem to know it: they open without effort and without opinion. On a wall it brings a quiet depth to a room, beside dark painted walls, warm wood and soft textiles, and its haze comes alive when the evening light falls low.
There is no signature on the front, so the painting can be hung in three different orientations, and with each turn the branches fall in a new direction.
Medium: Acrylic, iridescent acrylic and spray paint on 100% linen canvas
Dimensions: 107 × 107 × 4 cm / 42.1 × 42.1 × 1.6 in
Year: 2026
Signed and dated by the artist
Comes with Certificate of Authenticity