Original artwork description:

This is a poppyseed painting from the new series that I have been coming back to over the last 8 years. I initially chose to paint poppyseeds because I live in London which often makes you feel you need to hurry or keep busy and it felt important to me subconsciously spend a moment focusing on nature and stillness, the look of poppyseeds felt like the perfect subject, flowers have petals which move in the wind, but the sphere of the poppyseed head was the most still form in nature I found when walking (speed walking) around London.

'Turkis' is an acrylic painting of two poppyseed heads, painted part from real life and part imagination. The strong tonal contrast has been incorporated to create depth and a powerful presence for the poppy seed heads. The composition is very striking with the long thin stalks carrying the beautiful serene poppyseed heads, to me it is very aesthetically pleasing and I am excited to seek out more beautiful compositions and create more dynamic poppyseed heads in terms of the colours, tone, shape, leaves and contrast.

It is not a direct or accurate representation of a poppy seed head; the colour, positioning, vibrancy and leaves have been deliberately enhanced and exaggerated yet simplified to it's purest, elegant form.

It has been painted by layering translucent Acrylic turquoise paint combined with heavy acrylic paint to create depth and range within the background and poppyseed creation. Please do follow my on Instagram for future artworks and paintings.

This painting has the border painted black so it can be hung without a frame, it has hanging string on the back to pop straight onto your wall. Thank you for your time and interest in my paintings.

Materials used:

Acrylic paint

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