Antique Silver Kettle (2026) Original Oil Painting by Nimasha Perera

Silver is one of the most demanding subjects in oil painting. It has no colour of its own, only what it borrows from everything around it, and rendering that truthfully requires close, patient observation.

Here, the cool blue-grey of the kettle absorbs and distorts the warm terracotta background, the two colours pushing against each other with quiet intensity. The reflections across the body of the kettle are not decorative; they are the subject, each one a small, compressed world of light and shadow.

Painted with attention to the complementary tension between warm and cool, this work is as much about colour relationships as it is about a kettle.

Materials used:

Oil on canvas panel

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 25.4 x 20.32 x 0.3cm (unframed) / 25.4 x 20.32cm (actual image size)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: Still life