Painting Light and Colour

‘Merlot, flowers and an apple’

Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm

Status: €295

Merlot, flowers and an apple

This is a ‘Still Life”, or as the French call it, a ‘Nature Morte’.

I had this still life in mind as I was riding my bike to the studio. I stopped and ‘borrowed’ a small handfull of flowers from a bed of thousands, and when I got to the studio, I used my apple (no lunch!) and a half bottle of red that was Jon’s, but I didn’t drink it. Arranging a still life can be challenging. Bringing together a few disparate objects doesn’t necessarily make a (good) composition, but sometimes you get it right, and I think I did here.

‘Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. ‘
Stephen Sondheim

The whole composition is actually bought about by the red Merlot colours and that of the flowers – purely coincidental, but very effective. These are played of against the complimentary greens of the apple, bottle and the background green/greys.

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