Hollyhocks 22 (Summer's Tapestry**)

This floral composition rises like a quiet chorus, its hollyhock-like blooms suspended between intimacy and distance against a velvety blue field that reads as both sky and memory. The painter orchestrates a gentle tension between vertical stems and circular petals, letting soft, layered brushwork dissolve edges so the flowers feel breathed into being rather than outlined. Pink and periwinkle notes pulse around warm yellow centers, suggesting small suns of resilience, while the deep greens below anchor the scene in a grounded, almost devotional calm. In its balance of abundance and spaciousness, the work becomes less a botanical record than a meditation on renewal—how tenderness persists, upright, through shadowed depth.