This piece was born as a bright counter‑reaction to my family’s feedback that some of my earlier paintings felt too dark. Instead of softening the emotion, I decided to pour it into light, choosing to work with much more white on the canvas. Painted at the very end of summer, as autumn was beginning, it carries that crisp, clear feeling you get from colourful autumn days. Although it may appear floral at first glance, it is really bound to the emotion and memory of those sunny, cool, vividly coloured autumn moments. This is also one of those paintings that is particularly difficult to translate through photographs or a screen—the subtle shifts of colour and light reveal themselves most truthfully in person, in real interior light.
This piece was born as a bright counter‑reaction to my family’s feedback that some of my earlier paintings felt too dark. Instead of softening the emotion, I decided to pour it into light, choosing to work with much more white on the canvas. Painted at the very end of summer, as autumn was beginning, it carries that crisp, clear feeling you get from colourful autumn days. Although it may appear floral at first glance, it is really bound to the emotion and memory of those sunny, cool, vividly coloured autumn moments. This is also one of those paintings that is particularly difficult to translate through photographs or a screen—the subtle shifts of colour and light reveal themselves most truthfully in person, in real interior light.
