Traditional Japanese Flower Painting Monet The dusty sage and soft

The dusty sage and soft mist tones harmonise with grey

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

the kind of quiet charm that makes a child smile

set above a slim console or anchoring a reading nook beside tall windows

Traditional Japanese Flower Painting Monet The dusty sage and softCoral 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