This small oil painting from The Pantry collection reflects on the symbolic resonance of everyday forms. At its centre, a single red apple rests in gentle light, its surface revealing rich tones of crimson, magenta, and gold. From it, a slender branch rises with two green leaves, one fresh and lifted, the other fallen, suggesting a quiet dialogue between growth and decline.
Set against a dark, velvety background, the composition feels suspended in stillness. Painted at 15 x 15 cm and finished with copper leaf edges, the work carries a subtle warmth that deepens its intimate atmosphere.
Rather than treating the apple as a fixed symbol, the painting considers it as a living form within change. It becomes a meditation on cycles of vitality and fading, where opposites coexist gently within the same moment of 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.
