Artificial Flowers (2026) Original Mixed-media Painting by Gela MIKAVA

Artificial Flowers is a large-scale abstract floral painting by Gela Mikava, exploring the transformation of natural beauty through repetition, artificiality and memory.

Created with acrylic, ink, oil and paper on vintage Soviet-era fabric, the work combines expressive floral forms with a heavily layered and tactile surface. Purple, violet and muted botanical tones move across the composition, allowing fragments of flowers to emerge and dissolve between abstraction and recognition.

The work considers what remains of a natural form when it is repeatedly reproduced and transformed into decoration. Here, flowers are no longer presented simply as botanical subjects; they become traces of memory, beauty and artificial representation.

The vintage Soviet textile is an integral part of the work rather than a neutral support. Its existing history, texture and imperfections interact with layers of paint, ink and paper, giving the composition a physical sense of time and material memory.

At 140 × 162 cm, Artificial Flowers has a substantial architectural presence. Its scale, layered surface and expressive botanical imagery make it both an immersive abstract painting and a material exploration of beauty, repetition and transformation.

Materials used:

Acrylic, ink, oil and paper on vintage Soviet-era fabric

Details:

• Mixed-media painting on Fabric
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 140 x 162 x 3cm (unframed)
• Signed on the front
• Style: Abstract
• Subject: Flowers and plants