Tenderness

Mediums: tempera, cardboard.
Location: private collection.

Briefly about the painting:

The artist said that he started painting with live flowers when he was a child, as he did not have pencils. During his studies at the art school in Lviv, he adored paintings by Ivan Shishkin. This is how such scrupulousness in the depiction of each separate petal and a blade of grass appeared in his style. A lush bouquet of simple wildflowers – daisies and cornflowers – is not in a vase, but as if growing in this form from the ground itself, covering half the sky. Two birds are feeling comfortable under its shade – probably, they are making a nest there. Thus, a beautifully planned still-life with elements of landscape turns into a canvas full of symbolic meanings. The author said about the “Blooming” cycle, “I remembered my childhood, heaven everywhere… And flowers started emerging: real and surreal… Different flowers.”