Cabbage Whites on Lavender

Oil On Canvas

8x10 inches

2026

Small, bright, and delicate, the cabbage white is one of the most familiar butterflies in North America, and one of the most overlooked. With a wingspan of only one to two inches, they move through gardens and sunny fields like small flashes of light, easy to miss and quick to forget.

This painting asks you to remember them.

Two cabbage whites flutter to sprigs of lavender in soft yellow-purple light, painted true to life in scale. Their delicate wings and gentle markings are rendered with the same care and attention that a fleeting glance in a garden rarely allows. Drawn to purple, white, and yellow blooms, and to warm, open sunshine, they are perfectly at home here. As night falls, these quiet little butterflies huddle together for safety, a detail as tender as the painting itself.

Hazy purples, soft yellows, and warm whites drift across the canvas, creating a mood that is calm, unhurried, and gently radiant. A small painting that holds a great deal of quiet beauty.

Painted with Winsor & Newton and Gamblin oils on stretched canvas, finished with a gloss varnish for richness and long-term protection. Framed in a solid maple wood floater frame, wired and ready to hang.

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