Between the Layers Collection
There are stories that live on the surface.
And there are those that form slowly, layer by layer.
This collection is an exploration of what settles, what transforms, what remains.
Stillness. Weight. Earth shaped by time. Depth without noise.
When everything feels too much, you step into nature. You walk. You pause. Cold air fills your lungs. Nothing dramatic happens. And yet something inside you shifts.
These pieces are an invitation to return to self and to reconnect to something deeper.
This work began simply, two colours and a loose intention. Once the central form appeared, I paused.
The shape that emerged refuses certainty. It carries the curve of a shell, the suggestion of flame, the outline of something both ancient and intimate. It shifts with your inner landscape.
I titled it An Echo of a Memory because it feels familiar without being fixed. A contour of a feeling that slips away the moment you try to pin it down.
There is warmth in it. A sense of a doorway. A portal to somewhere just beyond the visible. Just slightly ‘other’.
Memory is fluid. It moves. It reshapes itself.
This painting does the same.
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Medium: acrylic on deep-edge cotton canvas
Size: 50 × 40 × 4 cm
Year: 2025
Framing: unframed, ready to hang
Authenticity: titled, signed and dated on the reverse; certificate of authenticity included
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At first, I could not bring it together. Instead of forcing it, I left it alone and turned to smaller works. It waited.
When I returned, the shift was simple and decisive, one intuitive splash of water and pigment. Suddenly, a way forward revealed itself.
While creating it, I felt as though the painting was speaking from somewhere slightly ahead of me. Calm and certain. Almost unfamiliar, as if it carried knowledge I had not yet caught up with.
Hereafter feels like a reassurance. A wink from the Universe. A reminder that clarity arrives through pause and trust.
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Medium: mixed media on linen canvas
Size: 33 × 43 × 3.5 cm
Year: 2025
Framing: framed; ready to hang
Authenticity: titled, signed and dated on the reverse; certificate of authenticity included
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Osad explores accumulation, weight, and what remains after prolonged pressure.
Built through layered surfaces, this work developed slowly, resisting resolution and moving toward density and containment.
Earth-toned pigments, acrylic paint and inks, coffee and pastels create a surface that feels both excavated and compressed, echoing geological formations, erosion, and emotional residue.
The painting sits between abstraction and landscape, holding traces of tension, memory, and material transformation.
Rather than offering release or comfort, Osad inhabits a quieter form of presence: grounded, weighted, and unsoftened.
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Medium: mixed media on cradled wooden panel
Size: 42 × 29.6 × 2 cm
Year: 2025
Framing: unframed; ready to hang
Authenticity: titled, signed and dated on the reverse; certificate of authenticity included
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Layered fragments meet along fine, seam-like lines, as though something has been uncovered and reassembled. Deep reds move through the composition like traces left behind. Subtle imprints.
When everything feels too much, I am drawn to the ground. Walking, standing still, letting my body remember what it means to be supported.
This work is about that remembering. Our roots, cycles, and the way the Earth carries both past and what is to become, at the same time.
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Medium: mixed media on paper panel board
Size: framed 27 x 31.5 x 2cm
Year: 2025
Framing: framed; ready to hang
Authenticity: titled, signed and dated on the reverse; certificate of authenticity included
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Layered reds and ochres press against one another with warmth and insistence. Gold threads through the surface like a pulse. The movement in this composition wants to sustain the tension and dance with it.
Doubt Carried by Light holds the energy of uncertainty and hope moving in close conversation. It is about trust as strength. About not letting the doubt extinguish the light.
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Medium: mixed media on paper
Size: framed 30 × 38 x 1.4cm
Year: 2025
Framing: framed; ready to hang
Authenticity: titled, signed and dated on the reverse; certificate of authenticity included
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As this and Hope Held in the Deep works speak beautifully together. If you’d like to take home the pair, feel free to enquire about a special price.
Rich, saturated reds and golds gather in layered, petal-like forms, creating a sense of warmth that feels both grounded and alive.
The composition carries movement, yet it feels anchored. As though hope is held firmly within something deep and enduring.
Gold flickers through the surface like soft affirmation, while bold strokes press forward with confidence.
This work speaks to hope as strength that carries us through the toughest times.
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Medium: mixed media on paper
Size: framed 31 x 27 x 1.4cm
Year: 2025
Framing: framed; ready to hang
Authenticity: titled, signed and dated on the reverse; certificate of authenticity included
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As this and Doubt Carried by Light works speak beautifully together. If you’d like to take home the pair, feel free to enquire about a special price.
Inspired by the scent of late autumn woods. Damp leaves. Muddy soil. Mist settling low. This piece holds the stillness of a season turning inward.
Earthy browns and muted greens gather like fallen leaves pressed into the ground. The red marks move through the surface like a softened heartbeat, tthe subtle rustle of life rustling below.
It speaks of natural cycles that cannot be rushed or resisted. Of what falls, softens, and becomes soil for something new.
A grounding presence that brings warmth and depth to a space, especially where you want to feel held rather than hurried.
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Medium: mixed media on paper board panel
Size: framed 29.6 x 36 x 1.4cm
Year: 2025
Framing: framed; ready to hang
Authenticity: titled, signed and dated on the reverse; certificate of authenticity included
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This work began as a larger canvas that I could not bring to completion.
I kept layering, convincing myself the next mark would resolve it. I was hiding in the comfort of “work in progress”, adding paint instead of making decisions.
Eventually, exhausted and frustrated, I turned the canvas over and cut into it. I tore it apart. What felt like destruction became something whole. When I flipped one fragment back around, the centre held. Stripped of excess, fierce and alive.
The offering was the whole painting, surrendered to fire, to honesty. What remains is the core that survived. A fragment born through rupture, carrying the heat of that moment.
Sacred because it required bravery of letting go.
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Medium: mixed media on a fragment of canvas
Size: framed 27 x 24.5 cm
Year: 2025
Framing: framed; ready to hang
Authenticity: titled, signed and dated on the reverse; certificate of authenticity included
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