Citrus & Tobacco

This intimate still life is a quiet homage to objects that carry personal significance—satsuma oranges and a weathered cigar box. Painted with careful attention to texture and light, the piece reflects the tactile pleasures of memory: the scent of citrus mingling with old paper and tobacco.

These objects are more than their form. They speak to the rhythm of seasons—of winters brightened by oranges, of summers marked by the distant trace of smoke. The composition is a celebration of sensory nostalgia: warmth, ritual, and the subtle poetry found in the everyday.

In capturing them, I invite viewers to consider their own private relics—those small, sacred things that root us to time and place, even as the world moves on.
Framed in a gold vintage frame to complement the warmth of the still life , ready to hang.