Iris Hollis · No. 183

Silent Frost

Silent Frost brings the Tranquil Vectorism series into the cold. Iris Hollis renders a snowy mountain valley and a frozen winding river in flat planes of white and pale blue, with deep navy pine silhouettes and sparse bare golden branches in the foreground, beneath a cool azure-to-lavender gradient sky. The flat-vector treatment — crisp edges, bold unmodulated colour, gradients reserved for the sky — gives the winter scene a hushed, graphic purity, the cold rendered as clean, calm geometry. Hollis works in the serene editorial idiom where less is unmistakably more; the dark pines and the single note of golden branch punctuate the pale stillness. Generous negative space amplifies the silence. Cool, tranquil and quietly elegant, it captures the held breath of a frozen valley without a flake of literal texture. It is winter distilled to white, navy and a thread of gold — a meditation on cold, calm and clarity in pure modern form.

An original oil painting on canvas by Iris Hollis, painted to order — never a reproduction. Calm flat-vector landscapes — bold geometric colour planes, gradient skies and generous negative space in a serene, editorial mood.

Artist

Iris Hollis

Medium

Oil on canvas

Finish

Unframed, ready to hang or frame

Made

To order, by hand