Original mixed media painting by Waynesville, NC artist Carol Fetty
20 x 16 in gallery wrapped canvas with 1.5 in sides
Materials: Oil
Created in 2025
This painting presents a sunflower at a moment of transformation-its petals curling, lifting, and drifting as if caught in a gentle current of air. Warm golds, ambers, and soft oranges radiate outward from the richly textured center, set against a deep, atmospheric blue that enhances the flowers glow. The contrast light and dark creates a sense of movement, as though the bloom is both rooted and in motion.
Rather than depicting a sunflower at its peak, this work honors the beauty in maturity-celebrating resilience, endurance and grace.
