The Fish

Nobody expects the fish.

And that is precisely the point.

In a collection known for sun-drenched coastlines, dreamy botanicals, and the tender poetry of birds and blooms, Fleming delivers something altogether different — a confrontation dressed as a painting. A large, commanding fish emerges from the deep, its body angled with the slow, inevitable authority of something that has never once questioned its right to take up space.

The color is startling and gorgeous. Warm coral, burnt sienna, and flashes of hot pink sweep across the scales with the looseness of an expressionist portrait — this is not a fish from a field guide, it is a fish from a feeling. The eye is large, dark, and utterly unblinking, holding the viewer with a gaze that is somehow both ancient and immediate. Behind it, a second form — silver-grey, more spectral — trails like a shadow or a memory, lending the composition a quiet sense of depth and mystery.

The background is all drama. Turbulent sweeps of deep teal, near-black, and dark jade churn around the subject like cold open water — restless, unknowable, alive. The brushwork here is raw and physical, all urgency and texture, a stark and thrilling contrast to the luminous warmth of the fish itself.

This piece lives at the edge of the VivRo universe — the place where whimsy gives way to something wilder, where beauty gets a little teeth. It is Fleming at her most fearless, reminding us that the natural world does not always arrive softly, and that some of the most breathtaking things are also the ones that make you catch your breath for entirely different reasons.

It does not match the room. It makes the room.

Palette: Deep teal · Near-black · Coral · Burnt sienna · Hot pink · Silver grey · Dark jade Mood: Primal elegance · Fearless energy · Beautiful confrontation

"Not everything beautiful arrives gently." — VivRo