Rebel Petals, 2025

Oil on paper

Rebel Petals captures that moment when a flower stops being merely a flower and becomes an act of defiance. Painted with sweeping gestures and layered colour, this piece bristles with the energy of growth under pressure — a bloom insisting on its right to take up space.

The marks feel almost insurgent: lines scratching through soft tones, sudden bursts of warm pigment pushing forward like sparks. Beneath the surface, earlier strokes ghost through the top layers, echoing histories of touch and reworking — a reminder that rebellion is rarely clean or quiet.

The composition reads like a single bloom caught mid-eruption, but the painting’s true subject is resilience. Rebel Petals is a celebration of fragile things that are stronger than they look, and of beauty that refuses to behave.