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Sunlit Ruffles, Peach Iris

A peach and orange iris blooms in strong sunlight, its ruffled petals edged in pale cream and shaded red toward the center. Behind it is a dark, out-of-focus blue-gray background that looks like a wooden fence, with soft green leaves at the lower right. A green bud sits at the bottom of the frame, and the whole image has a subtle painterly texture.

A collector wants this piece because it is not a pale, airy flower picture. One peach-orange bearded iris glows in direct sun against a dark slate-blue ground, and the ruffled edges seem lit from within. The fine painterly texture across the image gives it a hand-worked feel, and the unopened bud at the lower left adds a quiet sense of what comes next. It is the warm point in a room that wants one.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski