Verdant Flow (2024) Original Oil Painting by Valeria Ocean

“Verdant Flow” is an original mixed-media underwater seascape by contemporary marine artist Valeria Ocean, created with oil paint and hand embroidery on canvas. Measuring 40 × 30 cm, this horizontal green-blue artwork explores submerged stones, moving water, and shifting underwater light through layered brushwork and stitched details. Created for collectors searching for original ocean paintings, embroidered wall art, textured seascapes, and contemporary coastal art, the work brings depth, movement, and a calm organic atmosphere into the interior.

In Verdant Flow, Valeria Ocean focuses on the quiet movement of water over submerged stones. Deep green, turquoise, teal, and muted blue tones flow across the composition, while lighter passages suggest sunlight filtering through the surface and changing the appearance of the forms below.

The painting combines fluid oil brushwork with hand embroidery. Pale blue and golden stitches travel across the surface like fragments of current, reflection, or visual traces left by moving water. Rather than sitting separately from the painted image, the thread becomes part of the water’s rhythm.

This combination of materials gives the artwork a tactile quality that changes with distance and light. From farther away, the composition reads as a flowing underwater landscape; viewed closely, the embroidered marks reveal a second layer of structure, movement, and detail.

Water is central to Valeria Ocean’s artistic practice. She explores the sea as both a physical environment and an emotional space, paying particular attention to transparency, depth, reflected light, and the way natural forms are transformed by movement. In Verdant Flow, this exploration becomes especially material, bringing painting and textile techniques together within a single surface.

The compact 40 × 30 cm format makes the work suitable for bedrooms, offices, reading areas, gallery walls, creative studios, and contemporary living spaces. Its green and blue palette works especially well in minimalist, natural, coastal, and design-focused interiors.

The artwork has painted edges for a clean contemporary presentation, is signed and stamped by the artist, includes a Certificate of Authenticity, and will be shipped in secure protective packaging.


Title: Verdant Flow
Artist: Valeria Ocean
Medium: Oil and hand embroidery on canvas
Dimensions: 40 × 30 cm | 15.7 × 11.8 in
Orientation: Horizontal / Landscape
Subject: Underwater stones, water, reflections, light
Style: Expressive and gestural
Technique: Oil painting with hand embroidery
Artwork: One-of-a-kind original
Edges: Painted
Signature: Signed and stamped by the artist
Certificate: Certificate of Authenticity included
Packaging: Secure professional packaging

Materials used:

oil, embroidery on canvas

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 11.81 x 15.75 x 0.79" (unframed) / 11.81 x 15.75" (actual image size)
• Signed on the back
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky