ABOUT THE PAINTING: Inspired by quilts and landscapes, this work evokes blooming and movement in nature, emerging, dissolving, reforming, echoing my ongoing interest in botany, biology and the emotional architecture of nature. I am drawn to the cycles of life that unfold across bodies and landscapes in their growth, transformation, erosion and resilience, renewal. Thus, the painting moves between the representational and the abstract, where flowers are not symbolic ornaments but living entities formed by gestures of memory, desire and time. They carry the imprint of the seasons, the sediment of decay, the possibility of regeneration. I think of them as traces of an internal landscape, where emotional and environmental climates intersect. This piece is part of a broader exploration of nature as something in perpetual motion, very much fluid, porous, intuitive. It inhabits that space between becoming and unbecoming, where movement is constant, and destruction is inseparable from creation. . Original, one-of-a-kind abstract painting Size: 60x80cm Medium: acrylics and pastels on raw cotton canvas Ready to hang: no, ships rolled Signature: verso, also signed Certificate in PDF format Year: 2026 Finish: silky varnish with UV protection Shipping: rolled in a professionally packaged tube NOTE: Please note that this painting is painted to the edges. The size of the artwork unstretched is 67x87cm and the size provided (60x80cm) is an estimate, assuming the artwork is stretched on stretcher bars 2cm deep.