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Sweet Peas by  Ilene Gienger Stanfield
Ilene Gienger-Stanfield

Sweet Peas by Ilene Gienger Stanfield

MediumOil on Canvas
Dimensions12 × 9 in · depth 1 in
$750
# Sweet Peas

In *Sweet Peas*, Ilene Gienger-Stanfield constructs a study of floral form through layered gestural brushwork. The composition centers on clustered blooms rendered in soft pinks and purples, their delicate petals articulated through varied opacity and directional mark-making. The artist establishes spatial depth through warm and cool tonalities, allowing flowers to advance and recede across the canvas surface. The ground shifts between neutral and warm ochres, creating a shallow pictorial space that emphasizes the materiality of paint itself. Rather than pursuing botanical precision, Gienger-Stanfield prioritizes the act of painting—the responsiveness of oil medium to her hand—resulting in a work that balances representation with abstraction, where the subject becomes inseparable from its formal execution.
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