Blowing Wishes on Dandelions – Oil on Canvas by Cornelie Wolff

Blowing Wishes on Dandelions – Oil on Canvas

Dimensions: 25 cm x 35 cm x 3,5 cm

Medium: Oil

This oil on Canvas painting captures a moment of quiet magic and hopeful innocence. Wolff has expertly cropped the scene to create an intimate and personal view, drawing the viewer’s focus to the delicate act of a child making a wish.

The heart of the painting is the delicate dandelion head, a beacon of fragility and hope. A few of its fluffy seeds are captured in mid-flight, rendered with a light, almost ghost-like touch that suggests their weightless journey.

The background, a soft blur of muted greys, purples, and yellows, allows the central action to shine. This backdrop has a dreamy quality, emphasising the ethereal and fleeting nature of the moment.

Blowing Wishes on Dandelions is a celebration of simple pleasures and the power of imagination.

Oil on Canvas

Cornelie Wolff Approaching Art from a Different Angle

This Johannesburg-based artist started as a pharmacist.  After completing her Honours Degree in Psychology, she joined Helios to further her skills in Art Therapy.   During this time, she fell in love with art, the process and the emotional power it yields.

While raising her family, which consisted of three young children, she took part-time classes with Rika de Klerk and Willie Jacobs.  She also attended workshops led by Koos Bronkhorst, Niel Moss, Willie Jacobs, Rentia Coetzee, Ruth Walters, Elize Bezuidenhout, Douw van Heerden, Charla Maarschalk, and Jennifer McChristian.

Today, she practices what she preaches by creating her work under the motto: “With every painting I complete, I grow as a person and an artist.”

My art is created from a place of wonder – it is my dream for every human to never completely lose the child inside them, because it is our ability to see wonder and magic in things.  I use bold brushstrokes, contrast and an impressionistic approach to entice the viewer to create their own interpretation of the subject and become part of my world.