In ‘Poppies in Bloom’, fiery red gestural brushstrokes unfold from Dykalo’s engagement with floral symbolism and her intuitive, in-situ response to the natural world. The richly textured surface presents the poppy as a charged and ambivalent motif: its vivid chromatic intensity carrying layered associations of fragility, remembrance, and renewal.
Long entwined with collective memory since the First World War, the poppy appears here as both cultural signifier and living form. The poppy is held in tension between beauty and loss, and informed by the artist’s personal reflections on war-torn landscapes.
The work invites viewers to immerse themselves in its saturated reds and to encounter the emotional density embedded within each expressive mark.
