Original artwork description:

I fell in love with flowers young. I fell in love with travel not long after. Somewhere in the quiet, introspective moments that wash over me when observing a new destination, I began to envision splayed floral patterns in the distant horizons. During the quarantine of 2020, I began to experiment with painting abstract florals and allowed this phenomenon to find its way into my deconstructed landscape paintings.

This painting is part of my Millefiori Collection. Italian for a thousand flowers, Millefiori commemorates my life-long love of flowers and travel, encapsulating the way I see the world. I combine innumerable layers of translucent color with gestural marks and movements to render abstract landscape compositions that resemble loosely splayed flowers. The ethereal tonal effects and lack of specific contextual representation convey a sense of ambiguity and universality, straddling a space that feels both familiar and imagined, like a bewildering daydream.

This painting, on canvas and fabric remnants over a wood panel, ships unframed and is signed on the back. The abstract compositions can be hung vertically or horizontally.

Materials used:

Acrylic, ink, enamel, paper on Belgian linen over wood

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