Stillife with lemon and bust

This still life is built around a vertical flow – a diagonal composition that runs from the upper left to the lower right. Each object is placed with intention, creating balance and rhythm within the frame. The painting is set against a light, almost white background – a conscious choice, and a challenge. The “white” is never truly white, but filled with shifts in hue, shadow, and temperature.

Surfaces interact: warm objects with inner glow, placed alongside metal, citrus, and wood. The aim is not simply to describe, but to let the light move across the composition without losing control of the whole. The warmth in the materials is not added, but built up slowly, layer by layer. This is a painting where technical precision is inseparable from compositional clarity.