A New Large Painting of a White Rose, with an Unusual Background.

I hope the world is treating you well out there. I'm just going to tell you about one painting today, and it's a pretty big one I've been talking about releasing for ages. The first thing to say is that it's another in my Creation Series of rose paintings, and I have to admit that this one was a long time in the making. And part of the reason for this delay was I was trying something new. You see in the past I have tended to keep the backgrounds on these large roses quite nondescript, very much in the background, so to speak. However, this time I wanted to try an idea that had been floating around my head for ages; the idea of introducing a background that might add a layer of meaning more closely communicating how I saw these large rose paintings to begin with.  

And when I thought of possibilities, in this regard, my mind always drifted toward such things as mountain vistas, epic glaciers, endless skies or anything really that spoke of nature’s grand spectacles; all the things that had the power to make our collective jaw’s drop. 

And when I thought of possibilities, in this regard, my mind always drifted toward such things as mountain vistas, epic glaciers, endless skies or anything really that spoke of nature’s grand spectacles; all the things that had the power to make our collective jaw’s drop. 
And actually in the beginning stages of this painting the background was very much leaning toward those mountain vistas. And yet as often happens with a painting it can start leading the artist as much as the artist attempts to lead it. And thus, as much as I tried to direct the painting toward those angular mountain shapes, it stubbornly started dissolving them into watery wavy rhythms. I guess, sometimes, you just have to let the paint do what it wants and stop fighting it. 

What I’m trying to say, in my own unique roundabout way, is that I always saw in the roses, in their small beautiful forms, something of the grandeur of nature’s larger set pieces; And thus, in searching for a suitable background looked to their impressive scale for echoes of the feeling I was aiming for; And this expansive sea of waves stretching to the horizon, I hope, does just that. 

Here's a link to the painting itself with the size and price and all that info. 

Creation XIV - A White Rose oil painting 

Thanks for reading!

Vincent Keeling