Flowers Acrylic Painting
Mina has used acrylic paints and palette knives to create an impressionist look of bright flowers floating in a body of rippling water in the lush countryside. Carmine water lilies amongst green lily pads float in the foreground in blue waters. Multiple layers of paint and palette knife are used to create the texture of ripples meandering across the canvas and disappearing out of the viewer’s vision at the edge of the canvas.
Weeds, reeds and aquatic grass grow at the edge of the water to create the illusion of a verdant countryside and are painted with bold, sweeping, palette knife strokes. The viewer’s eye is subtly drawn into this scene and moves along with the waters to the edge of the canvas and beyond. The surrounding landscape that cannot be seen is left to the viewer’s imagination.
Mina sees the muddy waters that water lilies grow in as akin to the human negative emotions of envy, anger, fear, judgement, discrimination, jealousy, and greed. The beautiful flowers that emerge above these waters to bloom in their full glory represent the human ability to rise above all negativity/evil and emerge victorious to become a loving and compassionate human being. The Greek mythological name for water lily is ‘nymphae’, meaning feminine soul, and is associated with nymphs living amongst nature. As a nature lover, Mina was drawn to this meaning, and was thus inspired to choose the flower as her muse.
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Painting is signed by the artist.