Morning Glory (2026) Original Oil Painting by Oleksandr Balbyshev

The canvas is mounted on a supported wooden frame and sold ready to hang. The painting is not framed. The edges of the artwork are painted. It is signed, titled, and dated on the back.

Ships worldwide from my studio in Germany.

About the Artwork
Morning Glory takes its name from a flower that opens with the first light of day and withers before evening. Its brief bloom becomes a metaphor for those rare moments when we allow ourselves to exist without disguise—fully visible, yet never guaranteed permanence.

The flowering vines weave around the figure rather than simply surrounding him. They dissolve the boundary between body and nature, suggesting that identity is not something fixed but something that grows, unfolds, and continually transforms. Here, nature is neither a backdrop nor an ornament; it becomes an extension of the self.

The portrait refuses idealization. Layers of luminous blues, violets, oranges, and greens replace naturalistic skin tones, revealing emotion instead of surface. Visibility itself becomes a vulnerable act. To be seen is to risk judgment, but also to reclaim the possibility of tenderness.

Within my practice, flowers often function as symbols of queer presence—not as decoration or coded secrecy, but as living forms that resist rigid definitions of masculinity. Like the morning glory, they embody beauty that exists without apology, even if only for a fleeting moment.

Morning Glory is ultimately about the quiet courage of becoming. It is an invitation to imagine identity not as something to defend or conceal, but as something that, like a flower turning toward the morning light, simply follows its own nature.

Materials used:

Oil on canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 30 x 40 x 2cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the back
• Style: Impressionistic
• Subject: People and portraits