Original painting by Kate Morgan RI
Unframed artwork | 72 (h) x 53 (w) cm
Framed | 90 x 70 cm
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A Brief Description:
Taking in the Topiary unfolds like a dream of a garden remembered rather than observed—an Eden assembled from patience and quiet wonder. Tier upon tier, the landscape rises in lush, ceremonial terraces where fountains whisper into still pools and clipped hedges hold their breath in perfect geometry. Light seems to float rather than fall, tinting everything with a soft, enchanted glow, as though the sun itself has agreed to behave.
Flora dominates with theatrical abundance: blossoms oversized and jewel-toned crowd the foreground, their petals velvety, their colors unapologetically alive. Trees are sculpted into elegant silhouettes, cypress-dark and deliberate, while domes, staircases, and glass pavilions suggest a civilization devoted entirely to beauty. Water repeats the scene in reflections, doubling the pleasure, blurring what is solid and what is imagined.
Animals appear not as intrusions but as gentle witnesses—hares, foxes, birds—paused mid-movement, alert yet unafraid, as if they too belong to the design. Scale slips and shifts: a rabbit feels monumental, a fountain intimate, reinforcing the sense that this is a psychological landscape, not a literal one.
Overall, the painting feels like a hymn to cultivated nature—order flirting with wildness, ornament coexisting with instinct. It is lush, meticulous, and quietly ecstatic, inviting the viewer to wander without destination, to linger where beauty has been allowed to multiply unchecked.
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