Nenufares

Nenufares is a mixed-media artwork. This work showcases a unique blend of paints, monotypes, and other media to create a captivating piece of art. With its rich colours and intriguing composition, Nenufares elicits a sense of wonder and appreciation for the creative process. This painting is part of a collection of my works inspired by nenufare. Water lilies are extraordinary plants. They seem to have been created to decorate lakes, ponds or other bodies of water. The great French painter Claude Monet made them an icon of beauty. It is hard to deny that he chose beautiful objects that covered entire carpets of colour for the ponds in his famous garden in Giverny. In my village, in Malexander, water lilies are in many places. In spring the round green leaves show. After a while, wonderful white flower crowns emerge between them. It is these flowers, nenufares,  that are the object of our admiration. And the leaves? Aren’t they beautiful too? Their round forms are arranged in abstract patterns. Each leaf is a finished composition. No attempt is made to interpret it. Let the leaves map it out themselves. I use them as stamps, a monotype is created.