Japanese flowers 2001-2004

After my series Fruit Portraits, I continued with the same technique, oil on linen canvas with painting knife and varnish. At that time I was  influenced by Japanese flowers arrangements. It gave my the idea to a new way of painting flowers, not as a bouquet but as a portrait. I studied Ikebana, for two years to find the form and the way to make the composition of the paintings. I wanted to bring the brightness and the shearness of the flowers into the paintings. I used a green background as in nature and they were always living flowers as in Ikebana. 

For the opening of the exhibition in Stockholm in 2001, I as happy to get my second review in the press in Svenska Dagbladet, a national daily paper.

I made the prints to add an additional technique to this series. I choose these 2 images as a diptych in a Japanese manner.

They were printed at Sibirien Lito in Stockholm and are a mix of 6 colours in offset print and 3 colours in screen on 300 gram Fabriano paper, edition 1/120. I sign CL in red watercolour to remind of a Japanese name stamp.