Spring Awakening, 2026

Marta Breeze  

The painting conveys the state of a quiet awakening of life after a long winter sleep.
The deer is a symbol of natural strength, sensitivity and harmony with the surrounding world. Its antlers are decorated with pink flowers, which seem to turn into tree branches - a sign of renewal, flowering and awakening of internal energy.
The ornamental frame around the image resembles traditional folk painting and creates a feeling of protection. Flowers around the perimeter seem to envelop the space with warmth and life, forming a special rhythm, calm, meditative, almost ritual.
I felt this subtle transition in nature from the winter cold to the first breath of spring. That almost invisible moment when the earth still remembers the frost, but in the middle life is already born and will soon explode with flowering, warmth, sun, activity of all living things in nature. A feeling of foreboding...