Maximalist Art

Mon Cherie loops flowing green script across a blush-pink ground scattered with glossy red cherries and their curling stems. The pun is gentle, the palette is delicious, and the hand-painted...

Bloom Grid breaks the canvas into six painted panels — a black square with an orange sun and a small yellow flower, a magenta daisy, blocks of scarlet and marigold,...

Blue Bay looks down over a Mediterranean cove — sailboats scattered across deep blue water, a pale gold beach in the foreground, green headlands and a coral-roofed island in the...

Banana Stack overlaps a bunch of bananas in flat, offset colour — jade green, butter yellow, bubblegum pink and tangerine — on a soft cream ground, in the style of...

Afternoon Nap is a whole small story in one frame: a tabby cat stretched out on a rose-printed armchair, beside a window crowded with plants, with light falling across a...

Roses in a Checkered Vase sets a full bouquet of blush roses, cream peonies and tangerine poppies into a pink-and-black checked vase, all painted against a deep forest-green ground. The...

Sunday Morning catches a woman mid-stretch, half asleep in a sage-striped robe, floating on a coral bed scattered with bold retro daisies in poppy red and cornflower blue. The illustration...

Blossom Crown paints a solemn face in yellow and blush, with olive and navy hair threaded with pale pink blossoms, against a warm coral ground. The colour choices are deliberately...

Window to the Sea is quiet and cinematic: a white window thrown open onto a turquoise ocean, a low sun sitting on the horizon, the whole scene wrapped in a...

Pink River Valley winds a turquoise river between banks of coral, peach and blush blossom, past a small pagoda, up to deep blue mountains under towering white clouds. The turquoise-and-coral...

Glasshouse looks up into a Victorian glasshouse — palms, monstera, banana leaves and rows of terracotta and blush pots crowding beneath a pale grid of glass panes and blue-grey framework....

Holding Flowers paints a quiet figure in a sage-green shirt, dark hair pinned back, holding an orange poppy and two pink cosmos, against a soft lilac-grey ground. The muted sage,...