Description
Cover Me in Sunshine
Acrylic on Stretched Canvas
56 × 72 cm
R7 200
Cover Me in Sunshine is a joyful, light-filled floral that looks up through the branches of a blossoming jacaranda. Clusters of soft lilac and violet flowers hang from dark, twisting limbs, framed by delicate sprays of fresh green leaves. Julie Tugwell sets them against a luminous, swirling sky of turquoise, warm yellow and cream, worked in rhythmic, curving strokes that fill the whole canvas with light and gentle motion.
The painting has an uplifting, almost musical energy. Cool purple blooms play against the warm, radiant background, while the sweeping brushwork carries the eye up and through the branches, as if standing beneath the tree on a bright spring day. It is decorative and cheerful, yet handled with real painterly confidence and warmth.
At 56 × 72 cm this is a beautifully proportioned, mid-sized canvas that brings colour, light and a sense of the outdoors inside. It would enliven a living room, dining room, bedroom or bright office corner, adding a note of optimism and seasonal freshness wherever it hangs.
Style
Julie Tugwell is a contemporary South African artist whose work shares qualities with expressive, colour-led traditions and echoes the spirit of the Fauvists, favouring energetic brushwork and heightened, emotive colour over strict realism. In her florals she draws out the light, movement and vitality of a subject, letting rhythmic strokes and luminous hues carry the painting. The result is a body of original artworks that bring warmth, personality 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.
