happiness

Various rose meanings: The creative spirit of love.

True red is the lover's rose.
Amaranth long standing desire
Cardinal sublime desire
Carmine deceitful desire (not true to color)
Fiery flames of passion.

This painting is still in pupua form. Its for the show next year. Really looking forward to it and I'm enjoying the process. This new work is very different to my older stuff. Older stuff was very much "painterly". Back then my head was still filled with my mentors voices... I was more interested in abstract qualities... the buttery texture of paint and its weight and colour. I was curious about mark making and facinated by notations. Right now I'm drawn to symbols and figurative work; children illustrations and narration... which I hope will come across in this new series.