Rowdy Warren | 'Wild Flowers, 2019' | 90x210cm

Code: MARW19017

Artist: Rowdy Warren

Title: Wild Flowers

Medium: Acrylic On Canvas

Size: 90x210cm

Year: 2019

Rowdy Warren throws the garden at the canvas. Wild Flowers reads like a meadow caught mid breeze, blooms exploding across a black ground in flickers of butter yellow, soft pink, pale blue and silvered white. Look closely and the petals dissolve into drips, splatters and fine threads of paint. Step back and the field reassembles into something alive.

Warren works in a pop inflected contemporary mode. He borrows the energy of mid century gestural painting and pushes it somewhere brighter and more playful. There is a clear love of action here. Flicked lines arc across the surface. Pooled paint forms the heart of each flower. The black backdrop gives the colour real punch, the way a night sky lifts fireworks.

The scale matters. Stretched wide, the composition behaves less like a still life and more like a landscape. Your eye wanders from one bloom to the next, finding new clusters and quiet pockets. Pinks gather in some corners. Yellows take over others. Cool blues drift through the middle ground like shadow.

There is a generosity to the mark making. Nothing is overworked. Nothing is too precious. The painting trusts the viewer to find the pattern in the chaos, and rewards a slow look with small surprises. A single white splash here. A spider thin black line there. Wild Flowers is a confident, joyful piece of contemporary painting, made for a wall that can carry its width and answer its noise.