Shades of Fungi (2025) is an original 15 x 15 cm oil painting on canvas from the Pantry collection, finished with genuine copper leaf edges that lend a warm, refined luminosity to its intimate scale.
Emerging from deep shadow, a pair of Portobello mushrooms rest in quiet communion, one upright, the other reclined to reveal the dusky architecture of its gills. Earthy whites and warm umbers move across their textured surfaces, evoking soil, decay, and the quiet richness of the forest floor.
Light falls gently across cap and stem, tracing folds and creases like echoes of an unseen undergrowth. The work becomes a meditation on the beauty of what is often overlooked, where resilience and decay exist not in opposition, but as part of the same quiet, living system.
Unframed: 15 x 15 cm | 5.90 x 5.90 inches.
Medium: oil on canvas.
Finishing: the artwork comes ready to hang, and is finished with genuine copper leaf around the side edges.
