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Lit From Within: Magenta Peony

A large, full magenta-pink peony with many ruffled, overlapping petals sits in the center of the frame. Behind it is a deep green background of swirling, painterly strokes with hints of teal and blue. The whole image has a textured, brushed look, like an oil painting made from a photograph.

A collector wants this for the glow of it: one full magenta peony, ruffled and centred, set against deep green paint-like strokes so the pink looks lit from within. It reads as a bold floral that is also painterly. Someone who wants a flower on the wall that has real colour and depth, not a pale or tidy botanical, will stop at it. Pink against green is a combination many people trust in a room, and here it is pushed richer and darker than usual.

Artwork by Omaste Witkowski