"Flourishing"

Original bokeh oil painting

A rose garden is a place of beauty that features in many a childhood memory. From grandparent's gardens to a city's botanical gardens, the colours, fragrances and layers of every rose garden are a sensory delight. These particular roses were 'bokeh'/blurrily photographed, and subsequently painted, from Invercargill's Queens Park Rose Garden.

This painting belongs to a series of Bokeh Paintings recently exhibited at the Art Attic Gallery as part of the 'B' Exhibition. The soft focus allows light to grow and gives the painting an air of abstraction and conveys a message of the ways light finds you through the darkness and the beauty of that softness, of taking the focus off the 'sharp edges' and 'gritty details'.

About the painting

This is an original oil painting on canvas measuring 15cm wide by 15cm tall. It is framed behind glass in a shadow-box frame.

The frame dimensions of the frame are 32.5cm x 32.5cm x 4.5cm deep.