Traditional Japanese Flower Painting Monet There is quiet determination in

There is quiet determination in the way it pushes up from such arid ground

Its lowered head and locked gaze carry a sense of pure

the kind of quiet charm that makes a child smile

The dusty sage and soft mist tones harmonise with grey

Traditional Japanese Flower Painting Monet There is quiet determination inCoral 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