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This earthly paradise, a garden of love, full of flowers, a reflection of beauty, vitality, growth and life. This piece is inspired by Dutch vanitas paintings; a feast of earthly symbols, theatrical, exuberance, melodrama of a hanging tulip petal, a falling leaf, against its underlaying darker side of mortality.
Rachel Ruysch is one of my favourite flower painters from the Dutch 17th century.
Embroidery of 3D flowers, plants and roots H110xW90 cm