Traditional Japanese Flower Painting Monet visible brushwork in the background

visible brushwork in the background churns like wind itself

This study renders a horse in profile mid-stride

raw wood and matte black fixtures

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

billowing clouds that give the composition air and openness

Traditional Japanese Flower Painting Monet visible brushwork in the backgroundCoral 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