Mark Venaglia • Botanical Paintings
Commission a portrait of your prized blooms from the artist who has transformed Botanical Illustration into Portraiture and Magic Realism.
27 years experience in the fine art of Floral
paintings with a contemporary flourish.
“…One salutes his command of large formats with opulent floral images.
A viewer doesn’t only observe and behold Mark’s flowers, one actually encounters them. To meet a flower in this show is to be seized… and to accept it’s near-humanity.
In as much as the finest portraits of humans possess a visual endowment of spirit and life to be considered a cultural experience, so do Mark’s floral images.”
-Maria Pavlovich-McCarthy
The Connecticut Art Review
“I paint a flower from the perspective of a bee or butterfly. To insects, the petals and stamen of each bloom appear as the rolling hills and canyons of a landscape.” - Mark Venaglia
In Amsterdam 1637 one tulip bulb would purchase all of the following: 4 ox, 12 sheep, 24 tons of wheat, 2 tons of butter, 4 barrels of beer, one thousand pounds of cheese, a silver drinking cup, an oak bed and a ship.
From “Tulipomania”
by Mike Dash.
Commission
Mark Venaglia
for considerably
less and get
considerably more.
Contemporary Trompe L’oeil by Mark Venaglia.
Above: “Edible Flowers, Box One”
At right: “Edible Flowers, Box Two”
Casein Fresco on muslin 8” x 14”
Acquisition: $3,000. for each original work of art.
