Taking a stroll through a garden can elicit any number of delights because of everything from the fresh smells to the beautiful blooms. Lotton Gallery’s next exhibition, aptly titled In the Garden, celebrates these moments through paintings of gardens and flowers.
Included in the show is Simon Balyon’s Waterlilies and Windmills, which “shows boats transporting tulip bulbs through a calm river with blooming waterlilies on a sunny day,” says the artist. “Blooming tulips in gardens around the windmills in different colors make this painting a colorful whole. [There is a] village in the distance, with sun and shade; I find this beautiful to paint.”
Vakhtang, Spring Serenity, oil on canvas 16 x 16"
Eric Bruni, In the Heart of Poppies, oil on canvas, 31 x 31"
Gelena Pavlenko loves all flowers, but irises are her favorite. Her work Misty Morning shows one of the flowers. “I love them at the moments of bloom and their withering process. In my perception, those stages are ‘Great Secret’ and ‘Miracle,’” she explains. “As well, I love gardens and parks. For me, parks are full of treasures and [mysteries of] life. So I imagined a stroll of my iris in the park and tried to bring the grace of that phenomenon to the canvas.”
In the Heart of Poppies, by Eric Bruni, is a close-up of a red field of flowers. “I like to paint the flowers that cannot be picked, those that only flourish in freedom, that blush the meadows, delight the eyes, these proud flowers that live only free,” he shares.
Simon Balyon, Waterlilies and Windmills, oil on canvas, 16 x 16"
Gelena Pavlenko, Misty Morning, oil on canvas, 16 x 12"
Spring Serenity, by Vakhtang, depicting waterlilies, was inspried by a scene the artist found while navigating the rural roads of his homeland, the country of Georgia. “I always try, as often as possible, to get out of the city. After all those sounds of the big city, I suddenly felt that welcoming silence surrounding me,” he says. “And not ‘dead silence’ but filled with many small, almost impossible to hear noises of nature.”
In the Garden opens at the gallery on May 1. —
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