Still Life with Mug and Paper

This painting is of a still life set up using a mug, a saucer, and some dried oak tree leaves and fresh lemon and kaffir lime leaves. The paper that lays beneath the items creates simple layered angles that adds complexity into the composition, drawing the eye back to the centre of the piece, again and again. It's exploratory in nature, with elements of abstraction throughout.

Artwork dimensions: 25 (w) x 33 (h) cms.
Paper dimensions: A3 - 29.7 (w) x 42 (h) cms.

This is an oil painting on linen textured oil paper. It is signed on the front beneath the painting. It will require framing prior to hanging at your choice of framer or through Bluethumb. It would look ideal with a mat board and your choice of frame.

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Reeva is an emerging artist living and working in the Greater Melbourne region. Her work incorporates early childhood interests in photography and graphic design with her love for the painted medium. Complex and contradictory, her work explores the dynamic interplay between realism and abstraction in a harmonious composition. Although inherently juxtaposed forms of traditional painting styles, she aims to create a sense of balance between them. Reeva has won the AGES society art prize 2024/25, and won highly commended award in the Lethbridge Small Scale Art Award 2024. Reeva has also been a finalist in the Kennedy Prize 2025, Lethbridge 20000 Small Scale Art Award 2025 & 2023, Bluethumb Art Prize 2023, and Agendo Art Prize 2021, in addition to other smaller and local art awards. Reeva has had two exhibitions in 2023, exhibiting a solo exhibition at The Art's Lounge, Wyreena, as well as having her work exhibited through Gallery NWC at the Affordable Art Fair across Australia in 2025, 2024, and 2023.