In this series of small still-life studies, colour and rhythm take the lead. Each composition begins with the idea of flowers in a vase, but the subject quickly gives way to pure improvisation — layers of paint, collage, and texture shifting like notes in a jazz solo.
Boag describes these pieces as “my equivalent of jazz improvisation — think Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker.” That sense of freedom, invention, and syncopation is visible in every brushmark: the scraped edges, the pulsing contrasts, the glowing transparencies that make the surface hum.
Echoing Odilon Redon’s luminous florals yet grounded in a bold, contemporary palette, these works celebrate colour as music and painting as performance — intuitive, playful, and alive with light.
Flowers & Polkadots
A joyous collage of painterly and printed pattern — blocks of floral and geometric design merge into a vase of glowing orange-pink blooms.
The mix of textures (paint, collage, typography) makes this piece feel like a celebration of surface and craft.
It’s playful, layered, and quintessentially Boag — colour as music.
