"Smoked Rose" impasto painting, dark colored flowers on linen canvas
Located in Zofingen, AG
There are nights when the air doesn’t move. Heat sits low over everything, and whatever the gardens are releasing — rose, something greener, something almost like tea — stops separating into individual scents. It becomes one thick, wordless presence in the dark. Smoked Rose was painted during a heatwave, in a week when the temperature never really dropped, even after midnight. Roses in deep pink and violet emerge from near-black ground, their scent implied rather than shown — something recognized with eyes closed, the way you do when the night is too still to rely on sight. Branches cross without hurry, unlit, the way a garden looks when you smell it before you see it. Anastassia Skopp...
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Canvas, Linen, Spray Paint, Acrylic

















