Tree Red Peony by Kazumasa Exhibition Size:M - 50 x 70cm and warm gold

and warm gold

Ogawa Kazumasa's peony fills the frame with an almost overwhelming botanical precision

The duality is explicit: dark meets light

This is Kandinsky working in the mature Bauhaus register

almost theatrical abundance of its planting

Tree Red Peony by Kazumasa Exhibition Size:M - 50 x 70cm and warm goldThe tree peony holds a different character from its herbaceous counterpart more architectural, the bloom sitting atop a woody stem with a stateliness that Kazumasa captures with evident appreciation. In deep, saturated crimson, the petals cup inward at the centre, surrounding a cluster of golden stamens that punctuate the richness of the red. His collotype technique renders the gradations from petal edge to heart with exceptional accuracy, preserving