Acrylic on canvas, 50x70x3 cm, front-signed, 2018
 
Syona spent 6 months in Japan. That’s where she experienced the “Sakura time”, that moment in the early spring, before the green leaves appear on trees, when flowers bloom first, with soft petals, huge grapes of flowers, covering the Sakura trees in a haze of delicate pink colour. It is that haze, almost smudgy, that Syona wanted to re-create with her artwork, originally titled “Sakura By The Lake”.