This oil painting forms part of the A Love Written in Paeonia collection, exploring the peony as a symbol of beauty, transience and quiet wonder. Set against a deep, shadowed background, the bloom radiates shades of crimson, rose and vivid pink, its ruffled petals unfolding with a vitality that seems almost aflame.
Painted in oil and finished with genuine copper leaf edges, the work invites close contemplation of colour, movement, and light. Each petal catches the illumination differently, creating a rhythm of soft transitions and glowing edges that draw the eye toward the flower's luminous heart.
In Ember of Impermanence, the peony becomes a meditation on beauty at its most intense—the fleeting moment when a bloom reaches its fullest expression before yielding to time. Like an ember glowing briefly before fading, it reminds us that life's most radiant moments are often the most ephemeral, and it is their impermanence that makes them so deeply treasured.
Unframed: 20 cm in diameter | 7.87 inches in diameter.
Medium: oil on birch panel.
Finishing: the artwork comes ready to hang, and is finished with genuine copper leaf around the side edges.
