Cascading Color is a colorful textured floral impasto oil painting, mostly leaves with a few soft florals. Hand-painted in oil, sized for above a sideboard or a long sofa.
Cascading Color is what we reach for when someone wants flowers in a room but cannot keep real ones alive. The painting is a horizontal piece, mostly leaves working from greens into yellows and from there into reds, with a few soft florals tucked into the lower third. The impasto is what makes it read as a real arrangement rather than a print.
The leaves are worked in palette knife, so every stroke is a flat plane of color. That gives the piece a layered, almost sculptural surface. The florals are brushed in softer, with thinner paint, so they recede a bit and let the leaves carry the composition. The whole thing reads as one movement across the canvas, with the eye following the cascade of leaves from one corner to the other.
We made a deliberate choice to leave the background as a flat warm neutral rather than building it up. It pushes the leaves and florals forward and gives the surface somewhere to breathe. If we had built up the background, the whole piece would have become a wall of texture with nowhere to rest. As it is, the texture is contained in the subject matter.
Horizontal floral pieces work in two obvious spots: above a sideboard, or as the focal point above a long sofa. This one is wide enough that it does not get lost on a long wall. If you have a dining room with neutral walls, it is also a good fit, since the color does the work of warming the room. In a small room, the painting will dominate, which is sometimes what you want and sometimes not.
The piece is the most restrained of our colorful floral range. If you want something louder, the louder piece in this range has more saturation. If you want something cooler, the pale floral range has options. Cascading Color is the middle of the road, which is usually a good default if you are not sure.
