"Rob's Cottage Garden" Floral Summer Garden Oil Painting
“Rob’s Cottage Garden” is a floral impressionistic painting done en plein air, right there at the garden, late June 2025.
The story of the painting process.
Where do I start and what kind of color palette to choose to reflect what I feel now? How do I express that overwhelming feeling of Harmony in Nature, her logics and fluidity, her symmetry and unexpectedness, her enigmatic colors, shapes, voices, smells- everything that deeply affect us as the most powerful element in our well-being?
The most important thing for me is not to look upon the landscape from above the Humans’ pedestal but to express exactly how I feel: I am one of them. We are together. We are oneness.
I know for certain that I do not want to make any portrait style realistic photographic landscape. I want it to be just as enigmatic and subtle as nature is. Just hinting by leaving lots of space for quiet thoughtfulness and imagination so that the viewer could look at this canvas for hours, wandering around and discovering unusual associations on and on. That’s the goal.
And all of this needs to be done in just one painting session (that painting style, by the way, has a name of “Alla Prima”) without coming back next day or later at all for any additions or editing.
In order to paint in this style, one must intentionally develop a deep trust in one’s artistic intuition without questioning the process and the results. One must believe that he/she is somehow led by some sort of power or energy or intuition or an ancestral wisdom.
NOTE: this painting has been assisted by the artist Rob Vander Zee with the very final strokes.
SHIPPING/PICK UP
Free ground domestic shipping from my studio in Zeeland, MI. Ships in 3-5 business days.
Inquire here for international shipping
Pickup from Zeeland, MI available.
ART FEATURES
Original: one-of-a-kind artwork
Medium: oil on wrapped canvas
Size: 24”x36”
This art is unframed
Canvas sides are painted - this makes it versatile to hang without a frame.
“Rob’s Cottage Garden” is a floral impressionistic painting done en plein air, right there at the garden, late June 2025.
The story of the painting process.
Where do I start and what kind of color palette to choose to reflect what I feel now? How do I express that overwhelming feeling of Harmony in Nature, her logics and fluidity, her symmetry and unexpectedness, her enigmatic colors, shapes, voices, smells- everything that deeply affect us as the most powerful element in our well-being?
The most important thing for me is not to look upon the landscape from above the Humans’ pedestal but to express exactly how I feel: I am one of them. We are together. We are oneness.
I know for certain that I do not want to make any portrait style realistic photographic landscape. I want it to be just as enigmatic and subtle as nature is. Just hinting by leaving lots of space for quiet thoughtfulness and imagination so that the viewer could look at this canvas for hours, wandering around and discovering unusual associations on and on. That’s the goal.
And all of this needs to be done in just one painting session (that painting style, by the way, has a name of “Alla Prima”) without coming back next day or later at all for any additions or editing.
In order to paint in this style, one must intentionally develop a deep trust in one’s artistic intuition without questioning the process and the results. One must believe that he/she is somehow led by some sort of power or energy or intuition or an ancestral wisdom.
NOTE: this painting has been assisted by the artist Rob Vander Zee with the very final strokes.
SHIPPING/PICK UP
Free ground domestic shipping from my studio in Zeeland, MI. Ships in 3-5 business days.
Inquire here for international shipping
Pickup from Zeeland, MI available.
ART FEATURES
Original: one-of-a-kind artwork
Medium: oil on wrapped canvas
Size: 24”x36”
This art is unframed
Canvas sides are painted - this makes it versatile to hang without a frame.
“Rob’s Cottage Garden” is a floral impressionistic painting done en plein air, right there at the garden, late June 2025.
The story of the painting process.
Where do I start and what kind of color palette to choose to reflect what I feel now? How do I express that overwhelming feeling of Harmony in Nature, her logics and fluidity, her symmetry and unexpectedness, her enigmatic colors, shapes, voices, smells- everything that deeply affect us as the most powerful element in our well-being?
The most important thing for me is not to look upon the landscape from above the Humans’ pedestal but to express exactly how I feel: I am one of them. We are together. We are oneness.
I know for certain that I do not want to make any portrait style realistic photographic landscape. I want it to be just as enigmatic and subtle as nature is. Just hinting by leaving lots of space for quiet thoughtfulness and imagination so that the viewer could look at this canvas for hours, wandering around and discovering unusual associations on and on. That’s the goal.
And all of this needs to be done in just one painting session (that painting style, by the way, has a name of “Alla Prima”) without coming back next day or later at all for any additions or editing.
In order to paint in this style, one must intentionally develop a deep trust in one’s artistic intuition without questioning the process and the results. One must believe that he/she is somehow led by some sort of power or energy or intuition or an ancestral wisdom.
NOTE: this painting has been assisted by the artist Rob Vander Zee with the very final strokes.
SHIPPING/PICK UP
Free ground domestic shipping from my studio in Zeeland, MI. Ships in 3-5 business days.
Inquire here for international shipping
Pickup from Zeeland, MI available.
ART FEATURES
Original: one-of-a-kind artwork
Medium: oil on wrapped canvas
Size: 24”x36”
This art is unframed
Canvas sides are painted - this makes it versatile to hang without a frame.
