Description
Pezula Lily Pond 8
Oil on Stretched Canvas
40 × 50 cm
R6 800
Pezula Lily Pond 8 is a cool, tranquil view across a lily pond, its grey-blue water patterned with soft reflections of sky and trees. Green lily pads gather toward the upper left and drift across the surface, and a small orange-pink bloom glows quietly among them. A band of dark foliage frames the pond along the top edge.
Julie Tugwell works in a calm, tonal palette of silver-blue, grey and muted green, capturing the cool, reflective light of shaded water. Her brushwork is soft and rhythmic, describing ripples and reflections with gentle, broken strokes in an Impressionist manner. The result is atmospheric and restful, with the single warm bloom offering a quiet point of focus against the cooler surroundings.
This is a serene, contemplative painting that brings a sense of stillness and light into a room. Its cool tones and gentle mood suit a bedroom, bathroom, study or living space, and it settles comfortably against neutral, pale or blue-toned walls. One of Julie Tugwell’s Pezula lily pond series, it hangs beautifully alone or grouped with its companion pond studies.
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 cool, tonal 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.
