MiLo - Scratched Botanicals - XXL

MiLo – “Scratched Botanicals”
(working title — see alternatives below)

A work by Amsterdam-based artist MiLo (1976).

This composition presents a small group of imagined botanical forms rising from a pale, textured ground. Rather than being painted in, the flowers are fully scratched into the surface, giving the image a carved, tactile quality.

Each form carries a slightly different character. Some appear tightly closed and rigid, while others open outward with a more expressive, crown-like silhouette. The contrast between repetition and variation creates a quiet rhythm across the canvas.

The restrained palette and rough incisions shift the work away from literal flora and toward an imagined anatomy—part plant, part structure—hovering between growth, memory, and erosion.

The painting will be rolled up and shipped in a sturdy tube or box, without frame, and includes a signed certificate of authenticity.

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About the artist

MiLo (1976) is an Amsterdam-based artist with a background in photography and art studies. Over the years he has sold more than 800 original works, now residing in private collections, hotels, restaurants, and offices across Europe, the United States, Hong Kong, and Taiwan.

His practice spans from early Pollock-inspired action paintings to precise geometric compositions, and to the layered, scratched surfaces he often explores today.

In his current work, MiLo investigates the tension between construction and erosion, layering and scraping the painted surface until traces emerge. These may recall urban structures, geological strata, or remnants of thought — yet the imagery is never fixed. Each canvas evolves through process and chance, allowing multiple interpretations to surface beyond any single theme.

Each work forms part of an ongoing exploration of abstraction, memory, and transformation, making MiLo one of the most prolific and recognizable contemporary artists on Catawiki.