In the series Garden of Delights single flowers make a grand entrance in the staging of large paintings.
The curved background's mirrored surface produces permanently shifting distorted reflections of the beholder and the space around the painting. As a result the flowers seem animated, because our eye and brain cannot process the perception of an image deriving from a solid object in which parts change dynamically and others remain stable.
IThe Garden of Delights series incorporates a variety of flowers, but always a single blossom, casting each of them as a “star” through impressive staging. All these paintings are portraits of individual flowers, and yet they emphasise the qualities of the given species as a whole. It seems that even in thoseflower paintings the artist cannot escape the main theme of his work: portrait painting as a search for universal validity that is somehow larger than life.
The curved background's mirrored surface produces permanently shifting distorted reflections of the beholder and the space around the painting. As a result the flowers seem animated, because our eye and brain cannot process the perception of an image deriving from a solid object in which parts change dynamically and others remain stable.
IThe Garden of Delights series incorporates a variety of flowers, but always a single blossom, casting each of them as a “star” through impressive staging. All these paintings are portraits of individual flowers, and yet they emphasise the qualities of the given species as a whole. It seems that even in thoseflower paintings the artist cannot escape the main theme of his work: portrait painting as a search for universal validity that is somehow larger than life.
