Oil on Canvas | 122cm x 122cm | The Roses Series
 
Green Stems II is a quintessential Roses Series painting.  It is a minimliast work featuring white meringue peaked roses floating on a white background with dark green stems.  While the roses' petals are three dimensional and play with light and dark due to their form, the stems are depicted by the paint dribbling down the canvas in whichever way gravity allows it.  
 
Personally I place white Roses paintings on ivory or white backgrounds as the subtlety of the work and the shadows created by the impasto petals is the essence of this type of painting.