Smoked Rose (2026) Original Acrylic Painting by Anastassia Skopp

There are nights when the air simply stops moving. No wind, no relief from the heat — just gardens releasing their scent into stillness until rose, something greener, something almost like tea, stop separating and become one thick presence in the dark.

Anastassia Skopp painted Smoked Rose during a heatwave that didn’t break even after midnight. Roses in deep pink and violet emerge from near-black ground. Branches cross unhurried, half-lit, the way a garden looks when you smell it before your eyes adjust enough to see it clearly.

This is not a painting about a particular flower. It carries something closer to memory — heavy air, several gardens’ worth of scent folding into the same darkness, the kind of night that doesn’t cool no matter how late it gets.

Acrylic on linen canvas
Size: 60 × 80 × 2 cm (23.6 × 31.5 × 0.8 in)

Materials used:

acrylic

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 60 x 80 x 2cm (unframed) / 60 x 80cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Flowers and plants