The Flower Painting

Chinese art is one of the world's oldest artistic traditions, and the flower painting can be seen across the millennia. Dutch paintings from the 1600s show tulips in all their splendor, and Van Gogh's series depicting sunflowers are some of his best known works of art.

Inspired by nature's bounty, Novica artists create flower paintings exalting their homelands' floral splendor. From Peru, Theus uses oils on canvas to create expressionistic flowers in a fantastical style. Enrique Bustamante's flower paintings are naif and stylized; they often include birds. Regina Pecanha uses mixed media and Ceica Mendes works in acrylics; both capture the diversity of Brazil's tropical blossoms.

Bali is an island paradise where birds alight on floral branches in elegant landscape paintings by Made Artini and Wayan Rana. Thai artist Seksan Sing-on depicts the lotus as an expression of his Buddhist faith while Prachuap Chaikham-udom's flower paintings are kissed by dewdrops. His realist paintings have an almost photographic accuracy. Nitaya Tamwong paints close-up floral portraits in vibrant color. India's traditional miniature paintings are named for their amazing detail and N.K. Soni's miniatures depict perfect flowers browsed by butterflies.

We hope you enjoy exploring our flower paintings from around the world!