Maryan Besaga

Primrose continues the exploration of the primal impulse of creation — the moment when energy transforms into movement, colour, and form. Here, this process is no longer concentrated around a single centre: it spreads across the entire surface of the canvas, transforming it into a living, ever-changing environment.

The composition develops through the collision and interpenetration of numerous fields of colour, broad gestural brushstrokes, lines, splashes, and translucent layers. Yellow, green, blue, pink, and red fragments emerge, overlap, disappear, and reappear. Within this abstract turbulence, individual forms briefly evoke natural structures — leaves, petals, shoots, or fragments of an organic environment — yet never resolve into recognisable images.

The title Primrose connects this painterly energy with the moment of spring awakening. Rather than offering a literal depiction of nature, the work seeks to convey the very principle of its renewal: emergence, germination, proliferation, and movement towards light.

The combination of acrylic and oil allows for the creation of a multilayered surface in which spontaneous gestures coexist with areas of dense texture and transparent layers of colour. Painting becomes not a means of describing a form that already exists, but an integral part of the process through which that form comes into being.