LARA PROVOST
ABOUT ME
Originally trained as an engineer, I made a bold shift in my career to pursue my undeniable passion for painting. My artistic journey began with explorations in still life, figurative work, and nature, but over the past few years, I have become deeply dedicated to capturing the beauty of florals.
I describe myself as an emotional and sensory expressionist, using the intricate forms and colors of flowers to express the human condition. My work reflects the delicate balance between light and dark, color and form, emotion and mystery. Each painting is an act of alchemy, transforming a blank canvas into a visual experience that resonates with beauty and enchantment.
For me, a single flower can convey profound emotional expression, and through my art, I strive to create a deep connection between my soul, my work, and those who experience it. My art is a testament to transformation and growth, mirroring my own journey from engineering to the emotional depths of creative expression.
Petal Poetry
48"x48"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2024
Petal Poetry captures the lush, layered beauty of a peony in full bloom. Painted in rich magentas and deep violets against a black background, this piece explores the quiet intensity of nature—where softness and strength coexist in every petal. It’s a celebration of fleeting beauty, passion, and the poetry found in stillness.
C A D $ 4 , 1 9 5
Ribbons of Bloom
36"x48"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2025
Each petal drapes like a lover’s whisper delicate, longing, and impossibly tender. Twined in layers of blush and cream, the bloom reveals itself slowly, as if yielding to the warmth of a gaze or the promise of touch. Ribbons of Bloom is a love letter in petals an ode to softness, surrender, and the quiet passion that lives in every unfolding moment.
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A D $ 3 , 2 9 5
Summer Daydream
48"x30"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2023
Summer Daydream captures the gentle elegance of lilies basking in golden, summer daylight. This painting invites you into a tranquil moment where nature feels timeless lush, luminous, quietly alive, and crisp like fresh summer air.
C A D $ 2 , 8 9 5
Petals Like Promises
30"x48"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2025
This piece is a gentle vow soft, slow, and full of light. In Petals Like Promises, each layered bloom unfolds like a tender word spoken in love, full of hope and trust. A tribute to intimacy in its most graceful form.
C A D $ 2 , 8 9 5
Blue
36"x36"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2025
This bloom is breath made flower petals edged in frostlight, unfolding in regal stillness. Its heart holds a quiet ember, a secret warmth cloaked in opaline cool. A study in restraint and power, Blue Velvet is a bloom forged not in fire, but in moonlight. It invites reflection: on softness as strength, and beauty that whispers and not shouts.
C A D $ 2 , 7 4 5
Velvet
Whispers of Ice and Fire
36"x36"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2025
A bloom caught between opposites—petals like snow, a heart like flame. Whispers of Ice and Fire is both storm and hush, combustion and calm. It holds a quiet power in its duality, a tension that never breaks. Each curve and flicker speaks in the language of contrast: a conversation between heat and stillness. In doing so, Whispers of Ice and Fire unveils the hidden fire in Blue Velvet.
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A D $ 2 , 7 4 5
Blossoming Heart
24"x30"x1.5",
A rose caught mid-bloom, full of quiet power and tender grace. This painting captures the moment when emotion begins to unfold—open, vulnerable, and radiant with possibility. Like love in its first honest breath, Blossoming Heart speaks of beauty born not from perfection, but from the courage to open and surrender.
C A D $ 1 , 3 9 5
Oil on Canvas, 2025
Echo of the Sun
24"x30"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2025
This bloom is not merely a flower—it is a flame caught in stillness, a memory of fire etched into petal and stem. In Echo of the Sun, light becomes legacy, and the poppy, reaching upward, becomes a vessel of yearning—echoing not just the sun’s glow, but the ache of everything that longs to rise, to be seen, to burn brightly before fading into dusk. A quiet meditation on desire, memory, and the echoes we leave behind.
C A D $ 1 , 3 9 5
The Heart of Spring
24"x24", Oil on Birch, 2025
A celebration of tenderness and renewal, The Heart of Spring captures the quiet strength of a peony as it opens to the light. With soft layers of pink and coral, this painting radiates warmth, hope, and the subtle magic of nature’s awakening. It invites the viewer into a moment of stillness where growth is gentle, and beauty unfolds with grace.
C A D $ 1 , 1 9 5
Blushfire
A study in passion and softness, Blushfire captures the moment a bloom ignites with life. The peony unfurls in fiery pinks and warm light, each petal glowing with emotion. This piece speaks to the intensity within tenderness a quiet burn, a floral flame, a bloom on the edge of becoming.
C A D $ 1 , 1 9 5
24"x24", Oil on Birch, 2025
Crimson Serenity
16"x20"x1.5", Oil on Birch, 2024
Bathed in shadow and lit from within, Crimson Serenity captures a quiet, smoldering stillness. Each velvety petal unfurls like a breath held in time an ode to the calm power of beauty and restraint.
C A D $ 6 9 5
Golden Promise
16"x16"x1.5", Oil and Acrylic on Birch, 2025
A bloom caught between shadow and shimmer, Golden Promise evokes the quiet intensity of love held close. With deep crimson petals unfolding over a gilded background, this rose whispers of devotion, mystery, and the beauty of a vow kept.
C A D $ 6 7 5
Lean Into Me
16"x16"x1.5", Oil on Birch, 2025
Two violet tulips captured in a quiet moment of tenderness softly leaning into one another, as if sharing a secret or offering silent support. A study in connection, grace, and the strength found in vulnerability and closeness.
C A D $ 6 7 5
12"x12"x1.5",
In Moonlit Whisper, two blossoms lie in luminous repose, their cool hues shimmering like secrets beneath starlight. A painting that speaks in hushes, it holds the stillness of night and the hush of petals surrendering to time.
C
A D $ 4 4 5
Moonlit Whisper
Oil on Canvas, 2025
Ethereal Glow
12"x12"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2025
A fleeting moment of grace captured in full bloom, Ethereal Glow radiates a soft, silvery light from within. With petals gently unfolding against a backdrop of shadow, this piece invites quiet reflection on beauty that hovers between presence and disappearance.
C A D $ 4 4 5
Flaming Heart
12"x12"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2025
A parrot tulip unfurls in rich, fiery tones, its delicate edges flickering like a quiet flame. Set against a dark backdrop, the bloom becomes a moment of still passion elegant, intense, and fleeting.
C A D $ 4 4 5
Kiss of Crimson
12"x12"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2025
Bold and intimate, Kiss of Crimson pulses with warmth and desire. The glowing heart of the rose draws you in, a symbol of passion blooming in silence, with petals like secrets wrapped in flame.
C A D $ 4 4 5
Radiance Unfolding
12"x12"x1.5", Oil on Birch, 2024
Radiance Unfolding is a portrait of transformation where light meets shadow, and softness gives rise to strength. The rose opens like a whispered revelation, radiant and resolute, reaching toward its fullest self.
C A D $ 4 4 5
Spring’s Promise
12"x12"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2025
A magnolia in mid-bloom, reaching toward the light with delicate confidence; an ode to spring in Toronto. This piece captures the quiet optimism of early spring a reminder that renewal is always just beneath the surface, waiting to unfold.
C A D $ 4 4 5
Flame I
12"x12"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2025
With petals opening to reveal the intimate heart of the flower, Flame I invites you closer. This piece is a celebration of vulnerability and inner beauty where the fire within is just as captivating as the brilliance outside.
C A D $ 4 4 5
Flame II
12"x12"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2025
A tulip ablaze with vibrant red and golden tones, standing tall and proud. Flame II captures the fiery essence of a bloom at its peak bold, radiant, and full of life’s intensity.
C A D $ 4 4 5
Aubergine
12"x12"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2025
With velvety petals brushed in deep plum and cream, Aubergine evokes quiet drama and elegance. This tulip, bold yet graceful, leans gently into the light an ode to contrast, beauty, and the poetry found in nature’s richest tones.
C A D $ 4 4 5
The Rehearsal
12"x12"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2025
Poised in a moment of quiet anticipation, The Rehearsal captures the tulip mid-curtain, not yet in full bloom but alive with promise. Each fold and twist suggests movement like a dancer gathering breath before the first step.
C A D $ 4 4 5
In Bloom, In Blush
12"x12"x1.5", Oil on Canvas, 2025
A moment suspended in softness this rose, captured midbloom, speaks in the quiet language of unfolding beauty. Blushed in warm pinks and tender light, it is both a gesture and a pause, a reminder of how delicate strength can be.
C A D $ 4 4 5
