Art of Nations

Hindu Kush in Bloom: the Afghan mountains redrawn as a radiant flowering peak in black, red and green, with a pomegranate trailing beside it — AfghanistanHindu Kush in Bloom 01 / 04

A nation is more than its accounts. It is a mountain its people carry in memory, a coast, a colour raised on a flag. Art of Nations paints each of the 195 nations as a living bloom, so that what a people loves is seen, valued and kept.

44 of 195 nations portrayed

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The idea

The other half of the ledger

Perfect Nations designs how every citizen can have food, water, shelter, energy, education, health and livelihood. Art of Nations keeps the account a balance sheet leaves out: what a nation is for.

01
Culture as capital
A nation’s songs, crafts and gardens are wealth no balance sheet records. Each portrait enters that wealth in the ledger.
02
Identity as asset
A people that sees itself clearly invests in itself. Each bloom grows from the nation’s own landscape and its own colours.
03
Beauty as public value
Beauty belongs to every citizen, as clean water does. Every work bought in the gallery carries Perfect Nations forward.

Where it began

Botanical Origins

The garden painting from which the Art of Nations grew. Its fern, dotted leaves, coral flowers and red feather run through the nation portraits in Perfect Nations.

Acrylic on canvas · 12 × 16 in · 2026 · Not for sale

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Originals · one of one

The nation, as a living bloom

Acrylic on canvas, 24 × 24 in, one of one and signed: $2,500 each. Four are in the gallery now; any nation below can be painted as an original, to order.

Afghanistan

Hindu Kush in Bloom

The Hindu Kush rises as a flame-shaped bloom in the flag’s black, red and green.

$2,500

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Barbados

The Trident in Bloom

Where the old flag breaks, this one begins again, in ultramarine and gold.

$2,500

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Kenya

Mount Kenya in Bloom

The mountain that names the nation flowers in black, red, green and white.

$2,500

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Rwanda

The Thousand Hills in Bloom

A thousand hills unfold as a flowering wave in blue, yellow and green.

$2,500

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See the originals in the gallery

Prints

Take a nation home

Every nation portrait at 24 × 24 in: a print on archival paper, $165, or stretched canvas, $295, or an original painted to order, $2,500. Prints ship free in the US and for $25 to the rest of the world. Choose a nation to see it in the gallery.