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Held in Blue: Cream Buds Between Orange Bands

Two pale cream, bud-shaped flowers sit on slender green stems that curve and loop in a large oval across a dark blue background. Tall bands of swirled orange run down the left and right edges. The whole surface looks softly blended, with spiral patterns in both the orange and blue areas.

Two glowing cream buds on looping green stems, held in a deep indigo column between two bands of swirled orange. The orange-and-blue contrast stops the eye from across a room. Up close there is more to find: beaded stems, spiral patterns in the blue, and marbled smears in the orange. Someone with a blue sofa, a navy wall or a rust-and-orange palette will see this as a flower piece with real colour, not a pale, tasteful floral.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski