Papaveri viola - Maria Emanuela Fiori

Poppies open across a flat lemon yellow ground: a large pale pink one in the centre with a green seed head at its heart, a striped red and white bloom at the top left, and buds, thistle heads and green umbels filling the rest. The petals are painted in fine parallel strokes that follow their pleats.

Gouache on paper, the petals drawn in fine parallel strokes over a flat ground. Maria Emanuela Fiori is an Italian illustrator, born and living in Sardinia, who works in dense gouache and takes her forms from nature. Available as a poster or fine art canvas print in multiple sizes.