This small oil painting forms part of The Pantry collection, which explores the quiet poetry and quiet intelligence of everyday objects. At its centre, a cluster of garlic bulbs rests in soft illumination against a deep black background, their forms emerging in layered tones of cream, muted purple, and earthy brown.
Partially peeled and beginning to sprout, the cloves reveal a quiet sense of transformation, papery skins curling away, roots extending like fine threads of memory. Painted in oil at an intimate 15 x 15 cm scale and finished with genuine copper leaf edges, the work holds a balance between darkness and warmth, decay and renewal.
In The Quiet Clove, still life becomes a meditation on time made visible. The garlic is neither static nor pristine; it is in motion, quietly unfolding into change. What emerges is a restrained study of endurance and impermanence, where even the most humble forms carry a sense of continuity, vitality, and quiet becoming.
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.
