• Oil painting of a bee collecting nectar from a violet flower in portrait format. Bright realistic colours on a dark green background.
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Mario Cioni

Bee With Violet Flowers

$750.00 AUD
$750.00 AUD
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Oil on Canvas, 72 cm wide x 84 cm high x 3.5 cm deep.

One of a stunning series of voyeuristic oil paintings, up close and personal, glorifying the intimate, private and symbiotic relationship between flower and bee.

Honeybee, bumblebee and wild bee populations are currently being decimated in vast numbers around the world. This is due in large part to the commercial spraying of crops with a wide range of chemicals including neonicotinoids. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization states that bees pollinate 71 of the 100 crops that provides 90 percent of the world’s food.

Clearly, we need bees more than they need us. In response to the plight of bees I have created a suite of highly sensual paintings that draw us in, up close and personal, into their boudoir. These paintings tantalize, electrify and tease the viewer. We are invited to share their most intimate of moments.

It would be a shame if future generations were to miss the opportunity to experience this interaction first hand.

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