Beautiful Medinilla

A study in botanical quietude, the Beautiful Medinilla renders its subject in fabric and silk with an exactitude that recalls the great natural history illustrators, each petal and tendril resolved beneath an acrylic finish that lends the work both luminosity and permanence. John Richard brings to this piece the same considered hand that defines the collection as a whole — an editorial sensibility that understands art not as ornament but as architectural punctuation. At twenty-four inches tall and thirty-one inches wide, its proportions are calibrated for the wall that needs not more furniture but more meaning.