Summer Without Plans (2026) Original Mixed-media Painting by Kateryna Malomuzh

“A painting about the kind of summer that unfolds slowly — spontaneous, vivid, and beautifully unstructured.”

Summer Without Plans is a large-scale contemporary abstract painting inspired by the emotional freedom of summer — days shaped not by schedules, but by movement, light, warmth, and instinct. The work captures the feeling of wandering through a lush blooming landscape where color becomes atmosphere and memory becomes visual rhythm.

Rather than depicting a literal garden, the composition immerses the viewer in an expressive field of organic forms, layered gestures, and vibrant botanical energy. The painting unfolds like fragments of flowers, sunlight, leaves, reflections, and passing moments merging together into one living environment.

Created in a contemporary abstract expressionist style, the work balances spontaneity with harmony through repeated gestural marks and layered painterly textures. Vibrant pinks, coral reds, turquoise blues, fresh greens, soft yellows, and touches of lavender create a luminous palette filled with movement and emotional warmth.

At its core, this painting is about joy, freedom, abundance, and emotional openness. It reflects the rare feeling of being fully present — where time slows down, plans disappear, and experience becomes intuitive and sensory.

The inspiration for this piece came from memories of endless summer afternoons where nature feels almost overflowing with life. I wanted to create a painting that feels immersive and uplifting while still maintaining softness and painterly sophistication.

The work is created using acrylic and pastel on canvas through layered applications of paint, expressive mark-making, translucent color fields, and intuitive gestural drawing. The surface contains both energetic brushwork and softer atmospheric transitions, creating depth and visual rhythm throughout the composition. A protective varnish enhances luminosity and color saturation while preserving the textured details.

In person, the painting feels especially alive due to its scale and color vibration. The layered textures, overlapping forms, and subtle tonal shifts create movement across the entire surface. Depending on lighting, the colors shift from fresh botanical brightness to deeper jewel-like tones.

This artwork works beautifully in contemporary, eclectic, maximalist, modern organic, luxury residential, hospitality, or designer interiors. It brings warmth, vitality, color, and sophisticated energy into living rooms, dining spaces, creative studios, boutique hotels, lounges, or large open interiors.

Its panoramic horizontal format makes it an ideal statement piece above a sofa, bed, console, or large architectural wall.

Original artwork
Title: Summer Without Plans
Medium: Acrylic, pastel, varnished on canvas
Canvas size: 115 × 165 cm
Suggested stretched size: 100 × 145 cm
Shipping: Rolled carefully in a protective tube for safe international delivery
Stretching: Fully painted to the edges with generous margins, allowing alternative stretching options if desired
Ready to frame/stretch: Yes

Materials used:

Acrylic, Pastel, Varnished on canvas

Details:

• Mixed-media painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 165 x 115 x 2cm (unframed) / 145 x 100cm (actual image size)
• Signed on the back
• Style: Organic
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative