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Pink Awakening | A Celebration of Spring

Here is “Pink Awakening.”

I love springtime, when the air softens with warmth and the world bursts with colors and a fresh optimism. My new painting, Pink Awakening, captures that feeling in this joyful painting of pink cherry blossoms in the sunshine.

Artist Cedar Lee in studio with painting: Pink Awakening

This piece is a panorama-format acrylic painting on a wood panel, 12 inches tall and a dramatic 48 inches wide. The long, horizontal layout makes it perfect for hanging above a bed, sideboard, or any wide piece of furniture where you want to make a statement.

Cherry Blossom Art by Cedar Lee: Pink Awakening

This painting stretches across the wall like a wide window into springtime, bringing a sense of lightness and warmth to the room.

Pink Awakening. 12″ x 48″, Acrylic on Wood, © 2025 Cedar Lee

The central cluster of blossoms is in sharp focus, the petals layered in luminous pinks with subtle hints of coral. You can feel the warm sunlight filtering through the petals. As your eyes move toward the edges of the painting, the image gently fades into soft and blurred abstract shapes.

Pink Awakening cherry blossom painting

The negative spaces between the blossoms in the background appear as soft white shapes, giving a feeling of sunlight shifting and dancing. The details dissolve into a hazy blur.

Pink Awakening cherry blossom painting

This transition from detail to abstraction creates the painting’s emotion. It mirrors how spring feels: crisp and clear in moments, hazy and dreamlike in others. It suggests movement, softness, and the shifting light of a warm day. That delicate blur gives the piece a sense of the relaxation that accompanies the first warmth of sunshine on your face after a gray winter.

Closeup detail showing details of flower petals

The title, Pink Awakening, is about how the world wakes up again after winter. It’s about the return of energy and color, and a new joy beginning at the sight of new growth and petals unfurling.

Closeup detail showing the abstract shapes of sunlight through tree branches

For those who love the beauty of spring or simply adore the color pink, this painting offers a burst of happiness you can hang on your wall!

Closeup detail of painting: pink flower petals

Whether you’re decorating a serene bedroom, a light-filled studio, or a living space that craves a pop of color, this painting creates a fresh and uplifting mood. It turns any room into a place where the blossoms are always blooming, the light is always shifting, and spring is always beginning again.

Pink Awakening. 12″ x 48″, Acrylic on Wood, © 2025 Cedar Lee

Finding moments of happiness in life doesn’t have to be complicated. It often comes from appreciating the simplest things: Noticing pink petals and a warm breeze in the quiet unfolding of a new season.

Pink Awakening. 12″ x 48″ Art by Cedar Lee

The original painting and prints are available. Contact me with any questions.

Cedar Lee

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