Lotus Eyes Looking at You. Print.

This painting was born of a visit to a newly opened local lotus garden.

While most of us are familiar with the stunning and symbolic lotus flower and the sculptural woody seedpods, there’s a funky stage in between that is truly other worldly. 

Only someone growing lotus would witness these because their carnival colours and live looking eyes are short lived. Once the pods bow their heads and release their seeds into water to sink to the mud below, they quickly become brown woody vessels.

On leaving the lotus garden, I was gifted several lotus seed pods each at a different stage of maturity - including a tiny-mighty yellow-eyed pink pod born of a pink bloom. These multi-eyed curiosities had me smitten and the next day I started painting.

I rarely paint anything in its literal colours…but these seed pods say it best just as they are. I've included a couple of real life photos here to show what I mean. 

 

This is one of the first of a selection of quality prints from my botanical paintings.

Size is 305mm x 235mm x 35mm 

Quality - printed right here in New Zealand

• on premium 380gm cotton canvas
• printed in archival inks on the latest Epson Pro printers so it won't fade
• sealed in a UV blocking laminate that’s also easy to wipe clean
• hand stretched onto gallery grade, kiln dried stretcher bars
• complete with fittings ready to hang