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This earthly paradise, a garden of love, full of flowers, a reflection of beauty, vitality, growth and life. This piece is inspired by Dutch vanitas paintings; a feast of earthly symbols, theatrical, exuberance, melodrama of a hanging tulip petal, a falling leaf, against its underlaying darker side of mortality.
My work is also associated with the growing awareness of the environment, as a reminder to protect the natural world, a momento mori.
Rachel Ruysch is one of my favourite flower painters from the Dutch 17th century.
Embroidery of 3D flowers, plants and roots H110xW90 cm