Ephemeral Radiance captures the fleeting beauty of the Itoh peony Rose Dandy at the height of bloom, held within a circular tondo. Layers of rose, blush, and muted coral unfold in soft luminosity, where petals seem to both form and dissolve, reflecting the peony's dual nature of strength and delicacy, structure and release.
The surface carries a quiet vibration of light, as though the bloom is briefly suspended in becoming. Copper-finished edges extend this feeling beyond the canvas, acting less as a boundary and more as an afterglow, suggesting beauty that continues beyond what can be contained.
At its core, the work considers impermanence: the peony as an event rather than an object, a brief excess of radiance held just long enough to be seen before it softens into memory.
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.
