Dr Lucila Zentner is an Australian Contemporary oil painter Artist. Lucila’s key theme - spanning several gallery and private exhibitions in Australia - is the floral still life. Lucila has a painterly impressionistic style. She paints outlined flowers with energetically abstracted elements in a painterly impressionistic style. Her influences include Van Gogh’s movement expressed in the brushstrokes, Gaugin’s outlines and flattening of form, and in places Joaquin Sorolla’s use of light and colour. In this exhibition “Flowers in blue vase” are floral (mostly poppy) 2024 paintings, some named ‘Surrender” (signifying a surrender to the beauty of the flowers) and ‘Flowers for …’ (celebrating the presence of a vase of flowers as an accompaniment to a moment or an event). The blue vase pictured, is a real vase, gifted to Lucila…