oil on a wooden panel 91x91cm.
Flutterbys is a luminous reverie—an ode to lightness, movement, and the quiet joy of transformation. The canvas shimmers with a pastel gradient that drifts through pink, purple, blue, and green, creating an atmosphere that feels both dreamlike and expansive. Over this ethereal field, delicate line drawings of butterflies float and scatter, each rendered with a whisper of ink and intention.
Some butterflies are detailed, others barely sketched, as if caught mid-flight or mid-thought. Their placement feels spontaneous yet poetic, like fragments of memory or fleeting moments suspended in the air. The title Flutterbys plays gently with language, echoing the childlike wonder and ephemeral beauty that the painting evokes.
This piece is a celebration of transience—of things that pass through us lightly but leave a lasting impression. It invites the viewer to pause, breathe, and follow the quiet rhythm of wings across a sky that exists somewhere between waking and dreaming.
I use oil pastels, oil sticks, markers, scrapers, charcoal, pigment sticks, newspaper, and graphite to make marks, whichever fits the moment
UV protected, signed on the back. The work is on a plywood panel and is ready to hang. No further framing is needed
Ref: 20/07