{"title":"Summer of Love","description":"\u003cp\u003eBold, bright, and unapologetically joyful — the Summer of Love collection captures the energy of long days, open skies, and that fearless feeling summer brings. Sam's most vibrant palette meets his most expressive compositions in paintings that radiate warmth and possibility.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThese are the pieces that light up a room and make you feel something every time you walk past them.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"anonymous-sardines-lisbon-pt-2","title":"Anonymous Sardines","description":"\u003cp\u003eLisbon does something to you. The light, the hills, the smell of grilled fish drifting through narrow streets — it gets under your skin and stays there. Anonymous Sardines came out of that feeling. Two fish, yellow-green and loose, swimming through a wash of deep Atlantic blue. They look the same at first glance. But one is bigger, one floats a little lower, and each carries a heart-shaped tail — red, bold, unmistakable. Because no one is truly anonymous, are they? Not even a sardine. The little hearts floating up to the left are the ones that got away — feelings that rise to the surface whether you invite them or not. I painted this the way I remember Lisbon: vibrant, slightly chaotic, and quietly full of life.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hearts \u0026 Colors Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56683924324739,"sku":"anonymous-sardines","price":780.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/0089\/4595\/files\/anonymous-sardines.portrait.webp?v=1777787095"},{"product_id":"happy-pt-5","title":"Happy pt.5","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is something almost defiant about painting a heart this red. Not romantic-red — urgent-red. The kind of red that doesn't ask permission. Happy pt.5 is the fifth in a series of seven, and across all of them I kept coming back to the same obsession: what happens when you strip everything away and just leave the heart there, standing in its own light? Here, a pale, almost tender pink heart sits against a field of deep, burning red — and somehow, that contrast says everything I needed it to say. Soft and fierce at once. Vulnerable, yet completely unmoved. I made these paintings for Valentine's Day, yes, but honestly they are for every day you need reminding that love is still the loudest thing in the room.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hearts \u0026 Colors Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56690567315843,"sku":"happy-pt-5","price":950.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/0089\/4595\/files\/happy-pt-5.portrait.webp?v=1777797779"},{"product_id":"support-to-ukraine","title":"Support to Ukraine","description":"\u003cp\u003eSome things don't need explaining — and yet I painted this anyway, because silence felt wrong. A red heart, full and unapologetic, set against the blue and yellow of Ukraine. No slogan, no caption. Just the oldest symbol I know, placed where I believe it belongs. This is not a painting about politics — it's about people. About a country that has refused, against every odd, to stop standing. I painted this in 2025, and I wish the world had made it unnecessary. It didn't. So here it is: my heart, for theirs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hearts \u0026 Colors Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56693060567427,"sku":"support-to-ukraine","price":950.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/0089\/4595\/files\/support-to-ukraine.portrait.webp?v=1779388719"},{"product_id":"lisbon-pt-1","title":"Lisbon pt.1","description":"\u003cp\u003eLisbon hit me like a frequency I didn't know I'd been missing. There's something about that city — the light, the tile, the radio spilling out of open windows playing songs that should be thirty years old but somehow feel brand new. This is Lisbon pt.1, and it starts right there: with warmth so dense it glows, a heart that burns from red down through orange into pure yellow heat, like afternoon sun trapped in paint. The word below it came naturally — tagged, loud, unashamed, the way feeling something real tends to be. Graffiti as declaration. The eighties never left Lisbon, and honestly, good. There's a generosity to that city that gets under your skin. I wanted to capture the thing it gives you without even trying.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hearts \u0026 Colors Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56693067284867,"sku":"lisbon-pt-1","price":1500.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/0089\/4595\/files\/lisbon-pt-1.portrait.webp?v=1777797839"},{"product_id":"no-kings","title":"No Kings","description":"\u003cp\u003eYellow like a raised fist. Yellow like sunlight that answers to no one. This is No Kings — a piece that came out of something I was feeling in my gut and needed to put on canvas before the moment passed. The heart replaces the 'heart' of the message, because to me that's always where real power lives — not in crowns, not in thrones, not in whoever decides they're above the rest of us. The crown sits right in the middle, dethroned by its own presence, framed by a declaration that feels as old as it does urgent. I painted it fast, loose, with broad strokes of pure cadmium yellow and raw black. No fussing. Some things don't need to be polished. They just need to be said.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hearts \u0026 Colors Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56731791032707,"sku":"no-kings","price":950.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/0089\/4595\/files\/no-kings.portrait.webp?v=1777797940"},{"product_id":"heartflare-one-more-day","title":"Heartflare","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere are moments when a heart doesn't just sit quietly on a canvas — it radiates. Heartflare came from that impulse: what if the feeling of warmth could be made visible? Not metaphorically, but literally — light pushing outward, color blooming in every direction like the first exhale of spring. The yellow at the center is almost solar, and the greens and blues swirling around it feel like atmosphere catching fire. I worked in loose, layered strokes to give the energy somewhere to go, somewhere to breathe. No hard edges. No containment. Just a heart doing what hearts do best — giving off more than it keeps. This one is for Valentine's Day, yes, but honestly it belongs to any day you need reminding that warmth is real, and it's contagious.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hearts \u0026 Colors Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56732374925699,"sku":"heartflare","price":1710.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/0089\/4595\/files\/heartflare.portrait.webp?v=1777797819"},{"product_id":"festa-da-sardinhas-original-artwork","title":"Festa da Sardinhas","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvery June, Lisbon erupts. The streets fill with smoke and laughter, grilled sardines everywhere, paper decorations swaying overhead, music bleeding out of every doorway. This is Festa das Sardinhas — and I couldn't let it pass without painting it. Each fish here carries its own personality: bold patterns, wild colors, heart-shaped tails swimming through deep Atlantic blue. No two are the same, just like the people filling those narrow streets. I painted this in 2015 and it still makes me feel the heat of that summer. Look closely — one of them is carrying a question mark. I think that one is me, always wondering what comes next, always happy to be lost in a city that knows how to celebrate being alive.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hearts \u0026 Colors Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56910689272195,"sku":"festa-da-sardinhas","price":1380.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/0089\/4595\/files\/festa-da-sardinhas.portrait.webp?v=1777743645"},{"product_id":"california-original-artwork","title":"California","description":"\u003cp\u003eCalifornia lives in me like a song I can't stop humming. I spent years there, and this painting is my attempt to hold all of it at once — the redwood forests, the mountains, the Pacific rolling in, the golden fields, the desert heat, the orchards. That apple at the top of the heart? That's Silicon Valley, that restless engine of ideas. Everything in this place moves. The energy never settles. So I let the brush swirl, layer over layer, color chasing color — blue for the ocean, green for the forests, red for the earth, yellow for that relentless California sun. The spiral in the corner is the ocean doing what it always does: pulling you in, turning you around, sending you back changed. This is not a postcard. 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This is what love feels like when it stops being heavy — when it lifts. Painted in acrylic, bold and unguarded, this one is for everyone who has ever felt the warmth of something bigger than themselves and chosen to lean into it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Hearts \u0026 Colors Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57436148662659,"sku":"atmospherique-pt-3","price":1400.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0955\/0089\/4595\/files\/atmospherique-pt-3.portrait.webp?v=1777787129"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.hearts-colors.com\/collections\/summer-of-love.oembed","provider":"The Hearts \u0026 Colors Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}