Contemporary Abstract & Mixed Media · horizontal

Golden Windows, Mirrored Scroll Abstract

A horizontal abstract design repeats the same shape in all four quadrants: thick golden scrolls with black outlines, each opening onto a glossy band of purple, orange and yellow. Deep red curved forms and an olive-green center join the quadrants, and a dark green border surrounds them. The overall look is bold, warm and stained-glass-like.

Someone wants this piece because it is bold and ornamental at once. Heavy black-outlined golden scrolls act like windows, and each one opens onto glossy purple, orange and yellow panels that glow like light through glass. The four-way mirror symmetry gives it a steady, rhythmic pulse that a looser abstract does not have. Red, green and gold make a warm, saturated palette for a wall that needs a strong centre of attention. Visual attraction is reason enough here: it stops you with colour and pattern, and the small details (bubbles, swirl marks, sheen) reward a second look.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski