Traditional Japanese Flower Painting Monet set above a slim console

set above a slim console or anchoring a reading nook beside tall windows

There is a real sense of space and stillness here

billowing clouds that give the composition air and openness

There is quiet determination in the way it pushes up from such arid ground

or alongside a dressing area where its colour flatters soft morning light

Traditional Japanese Flower Painting Monet set above a slim consoleCoral and ivory peonies crowd the centre of this decorative composition, their layered petals opening wide above a tangle of plum branches. Around them, clusters of tiny white blossom trail along slender brown boughs, punctuated by little scarlet buds not yet unfurled. Sage and olive leaves fold between the blooms, and the whole arrangement floats on a pale cream ground softened by faint washes of duck egg blue and warm sand. The painting borrows the