Lotus Pod Family

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 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. These multi-eyed curiosities had me smitten and the next day I started painting. 

This painting shows a family of young, maturing, and woody lotus seed pods aloft on their elegant stems.

It's painted with acrylics paints and lightfast acrylic inks and is mat varnished for UV protection. 

380mm x 765mm with painted edges 35mm deep. Ready to hang.