Flowers with a newspaper, The flowers are from the Nemesia an annual plant native to Africa. These colourful lavish blooms are found amid newspaper wrapping. Not surprising since plants and flowers were often wrapped in a newspaper in the past, especially when sold at the market. That is what inspired this artwork. Nowadays, people usually use a gift wrap, or a paper with advertising on it. So the newspaper is mostly found in the background with grunge texts. The dark blue background gives the flowers a much more prominent place, they are ultimately the centrepiece as well. In the centre is another butterfly visiting the flowers. A beautiful big blue butterfly. So this is a colourful and artistic work that consists mainly of the colours, blue, red, orange, black and yellow. A work that really looks best at large size on the wall, for example above a sofa.
As an artist, I like to enter a colorful world especially the world of flowers. This colourful and so positive world appeals to me enormously. Flowers spread a positive atmosphere because of the colors and the beautiful and diverse shapes and one can never get enough of that!.. Read more…