Description
Pezula Lily Pond 5
Oil on Stretched Canvas
40 × 30 cm
R3 800
Pezula Lily Pond 5 is a light-filled study of a lily pond in dappled shade, its water alive with the reflections of overhanging trees. Clusters of green lily pads spread across the foreground, and a single soft-pink bloom glows among them. Pale vertical reflections of trunks and sky ripple across the cooler, silvered water beyond.
Julie Tugwell paints in an Impressionist spirit, building the scene from broken touches of green, cream, silver-blue and warm shadow. The palette is gentle and natural, brighter and greener than a shadowed pond, with light seeming to filter down through leaves onto the water. Her loose brushwork keeps everything softly in motion, dissolving the line between foliage, reflection and surface.
There is a fresh, tranquil quality to this painting that brings the calm of a garden pond indoors. Its soft greens and cool blues make it easy to place in a bedroom, bathroom, study or living room, and it sits beautifully against neutral or pale walls. A gentle, restful work for an interior that welcomes a touch of nature and quiet light.
Style
Julie Tugwell is a contemporary South African artist whose work shares qualities with expressive, painterly traditions, favouring energetic brushwork and an emotional response to her subject over strict realism. In her lily pond and water studies she echoes an Impressionist attention to light and reflection, working here in a soft, natural palette. She captures the atmosphere and mood of a place rather than a literal likeness, creating original paintings that bring warmth, calm and considered sophistication to contemporary interiors.
Please note: Images are provided as a guide to the artwork’s size and style. As each original painting is photographed under different lighting conditions and viewed on different screens, colours may vary slightly from the original artwork.
