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Magenta Pulse, Painterly Flower Close-Up

A dense, rounded cluster of bright magenta and pink flower petals fills the frame, with orange and yellow touches near the centers and green stems and leaves showing between them. The background is a deep, soft green. The surface looks painted, with smooth, swirling strokes through the petals.

A stranger would want this piece for its electric magenta against a deep green ground, and for the way the brushwork seems to turn the flower. The round bloom fills the frame, and the petals ripple outward from the centre as if the flower is slowly pulsing. It is clearly a flower, not an abstract, but the colour is turned up and the surface looks painted. That makes it a bold, saturated floral that is neither a soft, pale botanical print nor a flat photograph.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski