Original painting by Kate Morgan RI.
Watercolour & gouache
Artwork dimensions: 58.5 x 34 cm
Framed dimensions: 84 x 60 cm
This original painting ships triple mounted in a Italian white curved frame.
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Description of Garden Party
Garden Party opens as an immersive, almost theatrical landscape, where nature appears carefully staged yet utterly alive. The composition is rich and overflowing, inviting the viewer to step inside rather than observe from a distance. Layers of foliage, water, and hidden pathways create a sense of gentle disorientation, as though the garden is revealing itself slowly, on its own terms. Every corner seems to hum with quiet intention, suggesting that this is not a wild place, but one lovingly gathered into being.
The landscape glows with saturated greens, blues, and jewel tones, punctuated by soft lights that resemble fireflies, lanterns, or floating wishes. Trees arch overhead like cathedral columns, their leaves cascading in golden and emerald strands. Water appears again and again—ponds, fountains, reflective surfaces—mirroring the world above and below, blurring the boundary between earth and sky.
Animals gather not as subjects to be observed, but as welcome inhabitants: birds mid-flight or poised in stillness, a hare alert yet serene, smaller creatures tucked into the undergrowth. They coexist without tension, suggesting a moment of rare harmony, a pause in the natural order where everything listens rather than moves. Flowers bloom extravagantly in the foreground, oversized and intimate, their textures inviting close attention.
There is a celebratory hush to the scene. Despite its abundance, the painting feels contemplative rather than loud—a party held at under starlight, where conversation happens in glances and rustling leaves. Garden Party becomes less a depiction of a place and more a meditation on abundance, interconnection, and the quiet magic of being present in a living world that notices itself.
