Painting Tropical Leaves

About this piece

Leaves fill this canvas edge to edge: greens first, then the pinks and purples that tropical foliage actually turns when light passes through it. There is no horizon and no sky, just layered growth, which is why the painting reads as a window into a forest rather than a picture of one. At 120 × 90 cm (47.2 × 35.4 in) that density covers a serious stretch of wall, enough to change the temperature of a bedroom or living room, and acrylic suits the subject: the color stays saturated, the contours crisp.

This canvas is sold and will not be repeated as it was. While available it was listed at $385: a fair reference point for anyone weighing a commission of similar scale. The page remains in the catalog as part of the portfolio and shows one direction a botanical commission can take.

Foliage runs through the studio’s work in more than one material: the hand-tufted side of the catalog carries tropical and abstract leaf motifs in yarn. A commission can therefore go two ways: a new leaf painting sized to your wall, or the motif carried into a rug. For a painting, the route is the studio’s usual one: subject and size agreed up front, the original painted by Kseniia Derr and signed as always, and the finished canvas traveling unstretched in a tube, ready for stretching once it arrives.

To discuss a related botanical painting, send the intended dimensions and a note about its setting through the enquiry form. The studio will reply within 24 hours.

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