Tim O’Toole’s Wildflower Cluster I

A study in botanical reverie, Wildflower Cluster I renders its subject with the kind of unhurried intimacy that rewards a long second look. Paper and wood compose the work's architecture, their surfaces resolved in gloss and gel finishes that catch light with a champagne luminosity, while deliberate distressing lends the whole a sense of accumulated time. At nearly forty inches tall and thirty inches wide, the piece commands a wall with quiet authority — substantial without insistence. It is the work of an eye that understands how wildness, properly framed, becomes the most refined thing in a room.