Size: 12" x 12"
A circular mandala set within a square canvas of deep forest green, the composition contained and confident within its own boundary like a royal seal pressed into jade. The gold relief work is fresh and luminous against the vivid ground, carrying lotus florals, layered leaf clusters, and ornamental paisleys through concentric rings that tighten gracefully toward a ruby and mirror-set centre. What distinguishes this piece in detail is the jewel vocabulary — rectangular baguette-cut silver stones line the outer ring in a continuous border of precise spacing, while ruby red stones trace the scrollwork and floral stems throughout the inner field, creating a secondary pattern of warmth and colour that reveals itself only on closer looking. Mirror-cut navette stones are placed at the petal tips and leaf centres, catching light with a flash that is entirely their own. This is a piece of celebration and vitality, the green of sacred groves and prosperous courts, alive with colour and completely at ease in its own richness.
