In this work, the boundary between painting and reality deliberately plays a game with your eyes. The bouquet first looks like a classic still life in oil, but the flowers soon lose their flat shape and grow forward, as if fleeing the canvas. You see soft pastel roses, delicate daisies and golden yellow sunbeams of dahlias bending forward in a lush wave. On the table are loose leaves and flowers, almost carelessly left behind, as if someone has just touched up the arrangement. These small details make this work vibrant and human.
The inspiration comes from the old masters who centuries ago tried to capture the transience of beauty. I wanted to break that tradition by making the still life actually alive. The technique is a mix of painterly textures and hyper-realistic depth, making you almost feel you can touch the flower calyxes.
The atmosphere is light and open, as if nature takes a gentle step inside. The work is meant to bring warmth, a small feast of colour and movement that lets an interior breathe. It invites you to contemplate the moments when beauty steps outside its frame and walks into the room.
Created by Sven van der Wal with support from AI.
I am a daydreamer by profession, and inspired by nature and still life, I create digital art in the form of paintings, prints, photographs and videos... Read more…