Girl and Roses (2025)Oil painting by Nikifor Swiristuhin

When I painted this piece, I wanted to merge tenderness and strength, fragility and vitality, into a single image. The girl here is not merely a figure — she is a symbol of the inner world where roses bloom. They grow from her hands, from her gaze, from her very breath. The roses are like emotions: thorny yet beautiful, filled with fragrance, light, and pain.

I intentionally blurred the lines of her face, as if time and emotion were erasing its boundaries. In her eyes, I see the reflection of a world that holds passion, anxiety, and quiet sadness. The colors are my notes: pink and red sound like the heart, green like life, blue like memory.

The girl seems to dissolve into the flowers, becoming part of nature itself, part of the painting. I wanted the viewer to feel the pulse of that unity — the connection between human and world, love and beauty, pain and hope.

Materials used:

Oil paints.

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 50 x 140 x 2cm (unframed) / 50 x 140cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: People and portraits

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