Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
Marigolds and Swallow, 2025
Oil on linen, 40 × 30 cm
side 1
Open a larger version of the following image in a popup:
Marigolds and Swallow, 2025
Oil on linen, 40 × 30 cm
side 2
Alexander Skats Sweden, b. 1986
Marigolds and Swallow, 2025
Oil on linen
40 x 30 cm
signed and dated 2025 verso
€3,200.00
Further images
A swallow glides through a still interior scene, lending ephemeral motion to a study of marigolds glowing in gentle light. A meditation on fleeting presence and attentive looking.
Marigolds and Swallow traces a moment suspended between stillness and movement. A swallow — barely anchored to the scene — enters the composition like an afterimage, a brief passing presence that heightens the quiet intensity of the flowers before it. The marigolds, humble yet luminous, hold the viewer’s gaze through their textured surfaces and soft gradations of light, inviting contemplation of the ordinary as something quietly exalted.
Skats paints not to symbolize but to reveal; here, domestic nature becomes devotional, the everyday transformed into a subtle spiritual threshold between the seen and the fleeting.
Exhibitions
The Rose Window - Alexander Skats