Happiness
Caroline Boff
91.4 x 121.9 x 3.8 cm
Further images
A Floral Explosion of Fairies and Unicorns
From across the room, the painting is impossible to ignore.
The background is a hot, saturated pink, the kind that makes a wall feel awake. Blooms burst up out of a vase in vermilion, marigold, deep teal and cool aqua. Each one is a loaded swirl of paint, and the thick, scraped texture catches the light as the viewer moves past. Every bloom seems to spin.
The title leads nowhere in particular. It leaves space, and the painting keeps offering something new. One day it reads as a bouquet. The next it's a swarm of tiny wings, or a herd of something wild and gentle running through colour. Owning a painting that keeps its secret is part of the pleasure.
It changes the energy of a room. In morning light it's playful. In the evening the teals and reds deepen and it turns almost theatrical. Visitors stop mid-sentence in front of it and ask where it came from. The answer is that it's an original, painted by hand, and every swirl is visible proof of that.
A collector doesn't choose this work to match a sofa. They choose it for the feeling: joy that doesn't apologise for itself. For anyone drawn to work with presence, texture and a little magic, this is one to collect.