Traditional Japanese Flower Painting Monet the kind of quiet charm

the kind of quiet charm that makes a child smile

visible strokes that let the white blooms glow all the brighter by contrast

There is a real sense of space and stillness here

or alongside a dressing area where its colour flatters soft morning light

The dusty sage and soft mist tones harmonise with grey

Traditional Japanese Flower Painting Monet the kind of quiet charmCoral and ivory peonies crowd the centre of this decorative composition, their layered petals opening wide above a tangle of plum branches. Around them, clusters of tiny white blossom trail along slender brown boughs, punctuated by little scarlet buds not yet unfurled. Sage and olive leaves fold between the blooms, and the whole arrangement floats on a pale cream ground softened by faint washes of duck egg blue and warm sand. The painting borrows the