Sunflower After the Quiet One, 2025

Sunflower After the Quiet One is a tribute not to the famous Van Gogh sunflowers that the world knows, but to the overlooked one — the quieter painting, the one that hums instead of shouts. In this study, you enter into a private dialogue with Van Gogh’s gentler side, exploring the tenderness, the pauses, and the emotional undercurrent that sits beneath his more celebrated works.

The sunflower here stands alone, rendered through your expressive, instinctive mark-making. Rather than copying the original, you translate it: welding your own colour language into the form, letting gesture and instinct lead. The petals twist with energy; the centre holds weight; the surrounding strokes carry that unmistakable tension between light and melancholy that runs through both your practice and his.

This painting sits at the intersection of art history and personal voice. It honours a lineage of painters who turned everyday objects into emotional revelations, and it folds back into your ongoing journey with rebel flora — flowers painted not as decoration, but as living, feeling subjects.

Sunflower After the Quiet One is a study, yes, but also a conversation across centuries: one artist speaking softly to another, bloom to bloom.