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Sakura | Ground Pink (2024)
Natural earth pigment & gesso on canvas and museum grade aluminium stretcher
30 x 30 x 4 cm
Sakura | Ground Pink
Sakura evokes the quiet promise of the cherry blossom flower, poised between stillness and bloom. A delicate yet a restrained; the pronounced pink emerges from the surface, holding the possibility of renewal and capturing a fleeting moment of potential within the natural world.
Made with beeswax, natural earth pigment and traditionally hand-crafted gesso on cotton canvas, the work carries a soft, tactile luminosity. Its restrained palette invites a slower kind of looking, where nuances of colour and surface gradually reveal themselves. The surface possesses a quiet, marble-like quality, its delicate veining and mineral depths lending the painting the presence of a small monument or memorial; a place to hold what is fleeting, and honour what remains.
Like the sakura blossom, whose fleeting beauty speaks to the impermanence of all things, the painting holds a delicate tension between fragility and resilience. It becomes a meditation on the cyclical nature of life: the promise of what is yet to come, held quietly within the present.
Natural earth pigment & gesso on canvas and museum grade aluminium stretcher
30 x 30 x 4 cm
Sakura | Ground Pink
Sakura evokes the quiet promise of the cherry blossom flower, poised between stillness and bloom. A delicate yet a restrained; the pronounced pink emerges from the surface, holding the possibility of renewal and capturing a fleeting moment of potential within the natural world.
Made with beeswax, natural earth pigment and traditionally hand-crafted gesso on cotton canvas, the work carries a soft, tactile luminosity. Its restrained palette invites a slower kind of looking, where nuances of colour and surface gradually reveal themselves. The surface possesses a quiet, marble-like quality, its delicate veining and mineral depths lending the painting the presence of a small monument or memorial; a place to hold what is fleeting, and honour what remains.
Like the sakura blossom, whose fleeting beauty speaks to the impermanence of all things, the painting holds a delicate tension between fragility and resilience. It becomes a meditation on the cyclical nature of life: the promise of what is yet to come, held quietly within the present.