Heaven Flower

Title: Heaven Flower
Artist: Valeria Notarnicola
Medium: Acrylic and lacquer on canvas
Dimensions: 50 × 40 cm
Date: May 2025
Style: In the tradition of Gustav Klimt

Description

In Heaven Flower, Valeria Notarnicola draws deeply from the visual and symbolic vocabulary of Gustav Klimt to create a luminous, emotionally resonant portrait. The central figures—a serene mother and child—are nestled within a richly ornamented, floral dreamscape. Their forms are outlined with tenderness and reverence, their bodies partially enveloped in flowing golden patterns that echo Klimt’s signature interplay of realism and abstraction.

The background is alive with stylized blossoms in saturated blues and purples, suggesting a mystical garden that exists outside of time. Lacquered textures and metallic accents elevate the surface, giving the canvas an ethereal glow and tactile presence. The figures are both part of the natural world and transcendent from it—icons of love, protection, and timeless femininity.

Interpretation

Heaven Flower is a portrait of sacred intimacy—an allegory of maternal grace and the eternal cycle of life. In the tradition of Klimt’s ornamental mysticism, Notarnicola presents the mother not merely as caretaker, but as the radiant center of a private Eden. Surrounded by symbolic flora, she becomes an archetype of creation and inner peace. The child rests within this aura of gentle power, protected yet free. The painting invites the viewer into a space of beauty, nurture, and stillness—a blooming moment suspended in golden time.