ROSES SERIES
In the Rose Series, Mashian captures the quintessential and singular beauty of the rose. Evocative and startling, rather than delicate, the large-scale, mixed media paintings on wood panel highlight the intricacies of single blooms with several works employing the vivid hues of the rose as a theme.
“The rose, to me, identifies beauty, and it’s not a permanent beauty, and there’s a surrender to that, that today the beauty is here and then it may not be there or so be it, you surrender to that. I think that is a very important part of a woman, to be able to flow and to be with what is ”
– Haleh Mashian, The artist
Can one explain the beauty in a rose?
A rose is beautiful now and will eventually surrender its beauty to what is To capture this beauty, to save this precious form from decay, I isolate the subject in a textured filed where it can be a singular expression of form and frozen, eternal beauty.