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 else. When I flipped one fragment back around, the centre held. Stripped of excess. Fierce. 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, not because it was perfect, but 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
Shipping: Full details available on the Shipping & Packaging page.
If you’re based outside the UK, please contact me with your address for a shipping quote.
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 else. When I flipped one fragment back around, the centre held. Stripped of excess. Fierce. 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, not because it was perfect, but because it required bravery of letting go.
—
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
Shipping: Full details available on the Shipping & Packaging page.
If you’re based outside the UK, please contact me with your address for a shipping quote.
