Tropical Ocean Painting Van Gogh A single ghostly white iris

A single ghostly white iris stands among its blue companions on the left

while a few stray flowers rest on the table at its base

leather and warm timber

its thick mane and rich brown coat detailed against a clearing strewn with rust-coloured ferns and fallen leaves

ambers and soft gold

Tropical Ocean Painting Van Gogh A single ghostly white irisA single wave curls and breaks across the middle of this tropical cove, its crest thick with white spray and its body glowing aquamarine where the sunlight passes straight through the water. On the left a rocky headland rises, crowned with slender palms whose fronds bend in the breeze, and below it the swell runs up onto golden sand in thin, hissing sheets of foam. The horizon is a firm band of deep blue beneath towering white clouds, and the whole