Original artwork description:

A contemporary take on a traditional subject of vanitas still life.
With references to 17th-century Dutch still-life painting, it's exploring the age-old theme of life's transience and related themes of beauty and death, pleasure and fear, love and loss.

Painted from life.
Oil on linen canvas. 2013.

Materials used:

oil on linen canvas

Tags:

#love and loss #flowers #still life #love #white #spring #bird #garden #cat #beauty #life #meditation #lilac #death #may #blue tit #contemplation #bird song #white lilac #momento mori #dead bird