Lilac Lily Pond painting I made after visiting Victoriahuset in Stockholm Botanic Garden where multiple layers of green textures were laced by deep lilac lilies. A place where such fragile beauty can thrive and take centre stage is a place I feel most at home.
If your home is a place where fragile beauty can thrive, I would love this painting to be yours. You can claim it in my shop.
Specs of Lilac Lily Pond painting
Acrylics, oil, and oil pastel on canvas, 30 x 55 cm, in white wooden box frame (34 x 59 cm with frame).
Lilac Lily Pond is available for €680,- (delivery within the Netherlands included).
Details of Lilac Lily Pond painting
Development of Lilac Lily Pond Painting
This painting took several months to realise. After making the pictures in the Victoriahuset in Stockholm in July 2024 I first made some composition drawings in ink once I got home. Because I was also still working on my Night Garden series I started painting the base layers end of 2024 and putting on the initial compositions in white. In January 2025 I had to get cracking, because I would be showing these paintings at an exhibition in early March. Due to that deadline I ended up with ‘okay-ish’ paintings composition wise but colour wise they were nowhere near ready in my opinion (while I already had changed the colour schemes three times up until then).
So after the exhibition I took them out of their frames and started to work on them again, this time also using oil pastels in order to not only add more/other colours but also depth and texture. Yellows were replaced by pinks and blues and greens were replaced by darker blues and purples. Finally, my initial ‘jungle dreams’ that I had been dreaming for almost a year became a reality, including this Lilac Lily Pond dream of a painting.
I can’t be happier with the end result. The painting is inviting yet has a very unique character of its own. The lilies hold space for the viewer within their posture – like they’re bowing towards you while welcoming your gaze – and at the same time hold their ground due to their “central stageness” within the composition.
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