"CHELSEA COMOS" EXHIBIT • SEPTEMBER 9 - DECEMBER 9, 2023 • AMSTERDAM WHITNEY GALLERY
A hand-signed and individually numbered limited-edition artwork of Robert M. Swedroe’s Mushroom Dancers in a Butterfly Forest. Ballerina dancers, colorful butterflies, oversized mushrooms, and lush botanical imagery create a fantastical forest scene filled with hidden details and visual discoveries. Professionally framed and ready to hang.
Enter a fantastical world where butterflies soar above an enchanted forest, ballerinas appear among oversized mushrooms, and brilliant layers of color transform nature into a surreal visual adventure.
Mushroom Dancers in a Butterfly Forest is one of Robert M. Swedroe’s most imaginative nature-inspired collage compositions.
Swedroe approaches his collage art from a surreal perspective, intentionally avoiding a single prescribed interpretation. Instead, he creates intricate environments that invite viewers to explore the composition and discover something different with every viewing.
In Mushroom Dancers in a Butterfly Forest, ballerina dancers inhabit a whimsical woodland filled with some of the artist’s favorite natural wonders.
Brilliant yellow, blue, green, orange, black, and white butterflies appear to flutter through a lush forest canopy. Below them, colorful mushrooms in extraordinary shapes and sizes rise from an intensely layered landscape of flowers, foliage, abstract forms, miniature figures, and unexpected imagery.
At the heart of the composition, elegant ballerina dancers introduce a playful human presence into Swedroe’s imaginary natural world.
The contrast between the graceful dancers, oversized mushrooms, delicate butterflies, and richly colored forest creates an almost dreamlike atmosphere—part botanical garden, part fantasy, and part visual treasure hunt.
The dominant greens create a lush foundation while brilliant yellow butterflies, electric blues, vivid reds, purples, orange mushrooms, and unexpected bursts of color continually pull the eye across the composition.
This museum-quality limited-edition artwork is hand-signed and individually numbered by Robert M. Swedroe and professionally finished for display.
The artwork is dry mounted on canvas and presented with a crisp white mat, protected with Art Glass offering 70% UV protection, and finished in a smooth high-gloss black frame.
A professionally installed hanging wire allows the artwork to arrive ready to hang.
With its rich green palette, horizontal format, and extraordinary visual detail, Mushroom Dancers in a Butterfly Forest makes a memorable statement in a bedroom, living room, dining room, office, entryway, gallery, luxury residence, boutique hotel, restaurant, or sophisticated commercial interior.
Artist: Robert M. Swedroe
Artwork Title: Mushroom Dancers in a Butterfly Forest
Artwork Type: Museum-quality limited-edition fine art artwork
Edition: Hand-signed and individually numbered
Overall Framed Size: 30 5/8″ W × 21 3/4″ H
Orientation: Landscape
Mounting: Dry mounted on canvas
Mat: White mat presentation
Glazing: Art Glass with 70% UV protection
Frame: Professionally installed high-gloss black frame
Hanging Hardware: Professionally installed wire on back
Display: Ready to hang
Condition: New
Price: $1,650.00
Important: This is a hand-signed and individually numbered limited-edition fine art piece based on Robert M. Swedroe’s original Mushroom Dancers in a Butterfly Forest collage. It is not the one-of-a-kind original collage artwork.
Robert M. Swedroe does not create collage art to tell viewers exactly what they should see.
He creates visual worlds to explore.
In Mushroom Dancers in a Butterfly Forest, Swedroe brings together ballerina dancers and some of his favorite elements from nature to create an imaginary woodland overflowing with life.
Butterflies glide through a dense green forest. Brilliantly colored mushrooms emerge from the ground. Flowers, foliage, tiny figures, abstract passages, and unexpected objects appear throughout the composition.
Among them are graceful ballerina dancers who seem perfectly at home within this surreal landscape.
The more closely the artwork is examined, the more the forest reveals.
What initially appears to be a lush butterfly scene gradually becomes something far more complex—a layered visual environment populated with characters, patterns, natural forms, and hidden discoveries.
A visit to Swedroe’s butterfly forest is never quite the same twice.
Mushroom Dancers in a Butterfly Forest is an outstanding example of Robert M. Swedroe’s ability to transform familiar imagery into an entirely new visual environment.
From across a room, its rich green palette creates the impression of a lush, immersive forest.
Move closer and the composition changes.
Large yellow and black butterflies give way to delicate blue butterflies, hidden figures, ballerinas, flowers, colorful mushrooms, miniature scenes, abstract shapes, and layers of imagery that may not have been noticed before.
That process of discovery is fundamental to Swedroe’s collage work.
Rather than providing a single focal point or narrative, the artist gives viewers hundreds of individual visual elements to explore and interpret.
The result is an artwork that can remain engaging long after the initial viewing.
Its green, yellow, blue, orange, red, and jewel-tone palette is particularly striking in interiors featuring forest green, olive, black, cream, natural wood, brass, bronze, velvet, and botanical design elements.
The artist signature, individual edition number, professional framing, UV-protective Art Glass, and finished hanging hardware make Mushroom Dancers in a Butterfly Forest a sophisticated, collector-ready Robert M. Swedroe work designed for immediate display.
Robert M. Swedroe is an architect and mixed-media collage artist recognized for highly detailed compositions that combine color, form, movement, dimensional layering, surreal imagery, and visual storytelling.
His collage works transform recognizable objects, people, natural imagery, and abstract forms into complex visual environments designed to encourage repeated exploration.
Swedroe’s artistic approach reflects both the structural discipline of architecture and the imaginative freedom of fine art, producing compositions that feel simultaneously meticulously constructed and wonderfully unexpected.
Yes. Each limited-edition artwork offered in this collection is hand-signed by Robert M. Swedroe.
Yes. Each piece is individually numbered as part of the limited edition.
The artwork presents Robert M. Swedroe’s surreal interpretation of an enchanted forest populated by ballerina dancers, butterflies, colorful mushrooms, flowers, foliage, and numerous hidden visual elements.
The ballerina dancers are part of Swedroe’s surreal approach to collage. Their graceful human forms become part of an imaginative natural environment rather than a literal forest scene.
Look closely for butterflies, ballerina dancers, oversized mushrooms, flowers, miniature figures, abstract forms, unexpected objects, and smaller scenes hidden throughout the composition.
It combines elements of surrealism, contemporary collage, figurative imagery, botanical art, and abstraction. Recognizable objects remain visible, but they are assembled into an imaginative environment rather than a traditional realistic scene.
No. This is a museum-quality, hand-signed and individually numbered limited-edition artwork based on Robert M. Swedroe’s original Mushroom Dancers in a Butterfly Forest collage.
Yes. It is professionally presented with a white mat and smooth high-gloss black frame.
Yes. It is protected by Art Glass providing 70% UV protection.
The finished framed artwork measures approximately 30 5/8 inches wide × 21 3/4 inches high.
Yes. A professionally installed hanging wire is attached to the back.
Its horizontal composition and rich botanical palette make it especially effective in bedrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, offices, entryways, galleries, luxury residences, boutique hotels, restaurants, and contemporary commercial interiors.
The predominantly green composition works particularly well with forest green, olive, cream, black, brass, bronze, natural wood, velvet, warm neutrals, and botanical-inspired interiors.
Colors may vary slightly depending on photography, monitor settings, ambient light, and the lighting conditions where the artwork is displayed.
A hand-signed and individually numbered, museum-quality limited-edition print of Robert M. Swedroe’s Butterflies of the World. Dry mounted on canvas and professionally presented with a 1.5-inch white mat, 70% UV-protective Art Glass, and a high-gloss black frame. Measures 30 5/8 inches wide × 21 3/4 inches high and arrives ready to hang.
A hand-signed and numbered, museum-quality limited-edition print of Robert M. Swedroe’s Butterfly Nectar Chase. Dry mounted on canvas and professionally finished with a 1.5-inch white mat, 70% UV-protective Art Glass, and a high-gloss black frame. Ready to hang.
Bring the beauty of nature indoors with Butterfly Spring, a vibrant signed limited-edition fine art print by Robert M. Swedroe. Featuring colorful butterflies, layered mixed-media elements, and joyful movement, this collectible artwork celebrates transformation, renewal, and the wonder of the natural world.
Cosmic Energy by Robert M. Swedroe is a signed and numbered limited edition framed canvas featuring a vibrant green, gold, and jewel-tone abstract collage composition. Professionally dry mounted, framed in smooth high-gloss black lacquer, protected with Art Glass, and ready to hang.
Cosmic Firestorm by Robert M. Swedroe is a signed, numbered, limited-edition framed canvas featuring fiery orange, gold, amber, and jewel-tone collage detail. Professionally dry mounted, finished with a white mat, protected with Art Glass, and framed in a smooth high-gloss black lacquer frame, this piece is ready to hang and designed to make a statement.
A hand-signed and individually numbered, museum-quality limited-edition canvas of Robert M. Swedroe’s Feu D’Artifice Papillon. Bursting with butterflies, vivid color, and dramatic movement, this collector-ready edition is professionally framed with a white mat, UV-protective Art Glass, and a high-gloss black frame.
