milot from malabon
the picture is ok for me it expresses an action that completes my feeling of being contented in one thing. thanks for the picture a very great picture..........

Marian from Hull
It is the vase that is timeless. The flower is not standing bold and full of life any more. The vase will always be beautiful. It is the vase my eye is drawn towards.

Hannah Mc Cann Liverpool
I like it because the sunflower stands out from everything else in the background.

Pamela, Perth Australia
Sunflowers, in nature, are all movement as they track the sun through the day. The challenge to the artist is to represent this quality. Here the flower is most solidly immobilised in its narrow neck vase, yet the artist has cleverly conveyed the sunflower's innate mutability by contrasting it with the heaviness of sumptuous draped brocades and sturdy mahogany. The composition is perfect and uncontrived.

Chris Mallinson, Herne Bay
Wow! So dramatic and lifelike, you can feel the texture of the petals. VV Gogh eat your heart out!

Nancy Bea Miller from Philadelphia
Flower studies are quite often painted with transparent or glittering surfaces and high key colors. This painting is very unique with its sombre hues and opaque textures. I was at first somewhat taken aback by this unusual treatment, then captivated by its uniqueness. The golden sunflower seems to me to be like a person politely trapped in a somewhat confining and uncomfortable situation.

Stephen Brown
This is an detailed painting of a sunflower.This painting looks realistic because the background is dark making the sunflower stand out.The colours in this are good because normolly sunfloer painting are bright and colourful, this is dark and dramatic.

kate, manchester, pendalton college
This sunflower is a fantastic painting, the detail that is put into the colour of the flower makes it look so lifelike. The way he uses toning of the shodow makes it look 3D too. The detail in the varse is nice to,but sometimes it may attracr you way from the sunflower.

Sherelle Scott form Manchester
I like this painting because, the sunflower really stands out from the rest of the painting.

Eric Moss Rainhill
Mixed feeling about this painting to dark for my liking

Nicola Maynard, Dorset
An odd painting. A rich and detailed background. Sombre - and elegant providing a perfect foil for the beautifully highlighted delicacy of the vase. But it is disturbing in that the vase, which takes up two thirds of the composition is nevertheless dominated by the relative crudeness of the sunflower in the top third of the painting, which appears to be superimposed upon an existing picture of light and dark but perfectly harmonious. The eye is drawn away from painterly values and rather forced to concentrate on the horitcultural. There seems to be no relationship between the flower and the vase that is meant to be holding it. It is a dramatic painting but rather uneasy.

Joy Roy Choudhury
Recurrent use of the sunflower motif expresses the Victorian sensibility and taste. An air of languidness and indolence is created by the painting. The exotic elements of peacock's feathers and Japanese vase reinforce greater artistic freedom and self-indulgence.