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The Secret Life of Plants

Powerful Plants

Year
2025
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
200 × 200 cm (diptych)

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  • Viewings in the Barcelona studio or through Raffaella De Chirico Gallery

About the work

A dark line divides this large square into two panels, and the growth spreads across both. Seed heads stand in a row along the top edge. Beneath them, dense foliage in deep green, charcoal and grey bursts outward from the centre, lit by flares of pale yellow and white. Tiny loops and dots in violet, pink and silver scatter through the lower half.

At two metres square, the botanical tangles of The Secret Life of Plants reach full scale.

About the series

“I am interested in finding structures within things that initially appear to have none, structures that can give me a starting point from which to paint, experiment and continue.”

Ima Montoya, artist statement, 2026

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Square painting in two vertical panels of dense dark green and grey growth, with pale yellow bursts, small looped marks and a row of seed heads along the top.