Flower Vase

Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 6ft x 4ft
Creation Date: 2024
Collection: Out of Darkness

Flower Vase (2024) is a portrait of containment — of beauty held, of energy paused. This 72 x 48 inch oil painting from the Out of Darkness collection uses floral form as a departure point, not a destination. It is not a still life. It is a meditation on what stillness can carry.

The composition centers on an abstracted vessel rendered in heavy oil impasto, surrounded by bursts of color that resemble petals, flames, or signals. Coral, pale lavender, gold, and rust red blend and bleed into one another, marked by thick vertical smears and controlled drips. The vase is only implied, but its presence anchors the chaos — a structure in bloom.

I painted Flower Vase during a period of quiet retreat, when expression needed form but not narrative. The idea of a vase — a space that holds but does not speak — became a powerful metaphor for interior life.

The work recalls Philip Guston’s late abstractions and Lee Krasner’s floral explosions — not in style, but in spirit. It is an offering and a question: What do we hold inside? And what overflows?

Flower Vase doesn't try to impress. It invites you to look softly. To feel.