You are nothing but prickles and stings.. so states Anne Shirley to formidable headmistress Katharine Brooke.  These hyperrealistic paintings by Kwang Ho Lee are most certainly full of prickles, but the sting is how incredibly gorgeous they are!

 

Cactus have this incredible dangerous beauty to them, don’t they?  Those incredible textures, especially in the “fuzzy” variety, leave us longing to touch but the second we do we’ll know why we shouldn’t.  Which gives them such a lovely, unattainable, untamable appeal.

To see more of Kwang Ho Lee‘s work, please visit the website of his representing gallery, Kukje Gallery.

Images via Hi-Fructose and This is Colossal.