White Flowers, Window Light
An oil on canvas of modest, intimate scale (13 x 20 inches, 2021), the composition centres on white narcissus arranged in a jug and set against the diffuse light of a window. A length of string and a basket occupy the table alongside the flowers, the kind of incidental domestic detail that anchors a still life in lived time rather than formal arrangement.
The title's emphasis on window light suggests that the quality of illumination is as much the subject as the flowers themselves, the cool, even light that comes through glass lending the whites of the narcissus their particular luminosity. Oil on canvas allows for the layered handling that such a subject rewards, building up the petals' soft opacity against whatever lies behind them.