A Search for Home
Oil on Canvas
119 x 158 cm
03/30/2024
Priced at 5,000 GPB
119 x 158 cm
03/30/2024
Priced at 5,000 GPB
A Search for Home is set in a surrealistic depiction of Monument Valey National Park, United States.
While speaking firsthand ot aUkrainian mother and felow classmate, she explained how she longs for home. My painting aims to reflect her feeling of temporary displacement and the mass displacement of over 4.3 million children more than half the Ukrainian child population.
Regarding technical foundation, the composition explores symmetry: first, the sky; second, the mountains on both sides; third, the placement of the mother and son; lastly, the color scheme of warmer colors above and underneath the horizon line and cooler colors at the bottom and top of the canvas.
A Search for Home depicts a displaced Ukranian Mother and her son searching for home in a surrealistic landscape far from home.
A Bridge to the Past
Oil on Canvas
100 x 150 cm
10/02/2024
SOLD
A Bridge to the Past reimagines a Tenessee, United States landscape permitting the viewer a clear view of the creek and the landscape in the distance.
Only half of the 1801 Bridge remains. Historically the bridge was used to facilitate transport accross Brown’s creek for mail delivery, for general travel accross the Natches Trace, and for Native American and Military Agencies.
The Hill on the right represents an Indian Mound. Between 1050 and 1350 AD Native Americans constructed a 12-acre town. The town consisted of dozens of houses, places of worship, and communal buildings. Now all that remains is a mound.
Lastly, the horses represent the past usage of the bridge.
A Bridge to the Past represents life’s ephemerality, exploring what onc
Dual Aura
Oil on Canvas
91.44 x 121.92 cm
18/06/2024
Priced at 6,000 GPB
Dual Aura explores my subconscious mind by combining two scenes
with contrasting energies. The night scene is a reinterpretation of Richmond Park ni London, and the day scene reinterprets Seven Sisters near Brighton. Each animal, such as the peacock, sheep, goose, and swan, are animals I have spent time with this past year ni England.
This piece is inspired by Salvador Dali and Renee Magritte, exploring symmetry and a limited color palette.
Dual Aura challenges the conception of the typical landscape painting by transporting hte viewer into not one but rather two surreal landscape
91.44 x 121.92 cm
18/06/2024
Priced at 6,000 GPB
Dual Aura explores my subconscious mind by combining two scenes
with contrasting energies. The night scene is a reinterpretation of Richmond Park ni London, and the day scene reinterprets Seven Sisters near Brighton. Each animal, such as the peacock, sheep, goose, and swan, are animals I have spent time with this past year ni England.
This piece is inspired by Salvador Dali and Renee Magritte, exploring symmetry and a limited color palette.
Dual Aura challenges the conception of the typical landscape painting by transporting hte viewer into not one but rather two surreal landscape
Symbiosis Series
Oil on Canvas
4X (20.3 x 25.4) & 91.44 x 121.92 cm
26/07/2024
4X (20.3 x 25.4) & 91.44 x 121.92 cm
26/07/2024
The Symbiosis Series consists of flowers found in East London and arround the Thames. East London became home to Huguenot Refugees in the 17th century to immigrants from South Asia and the Caribeean. Today East London is a globally diverse culture.
The series presents both wild and planted flowers to the viewer representing diversity.
The Symbiosis Series explores symmetry accross multiple canvases through colour scheme intentionality.
Photography was integral to the process. The desired affect to achieve symmetry with colour scheme was achieved through editing images then painting them.
The various flower colors represents East London’s vibrant culture.
The series presents both wild and planted flowers to the viewer representing diversity.
The Symbiosis Series explores symmetry accross multiple canvases through colour scheme intentionality.
Photography was integral to the process. The desired affect to achieve symmetry with colour scheme was achieved through editing images then painting them.
The various flower colors represents East London’s vibrant culture.
A Beguiling Peacock
Oil on Canvas
76 x 102
04/11/2024
76 x 102
04/11/2024
A Beguiling Peacock is a scene set in a Florida plantation garden. The painting explores Renaissance compositional thinking in a contemporary context. Like Raphael’s The Betrothal of the Virgin (1504), one-point perspective sets the scene. Peacocks, native to Sri Lanka and India, were imported globally as yard ornaments. In the painting, the peacock represents humans’ capacity to reallocate nature.
Similar to Levitating Sphere, this painting delves into humanity’s desire to impose orderliness and tidiness on nature, as evidenced by the equidistant live oak trees and roses. It explores how small-scale perceived control masks our ability to address large climate issues. The artwork aims to raise awareness that pristine oases are often man-made, urging the viewer not to be misled by isolated beauty. It’s a call to action, reminding us to consider the holistic perspective of our world’s climatic state.
The piece’s process first involved a one-point perspective drawing that was then transferred into Photoshop. Different color schemes were tested in Photoshop, informing the resolved painting.
Similar to Levitating Sphere, this painting delves into humanity’s desire to impose orderliness and tidiness on nature, as evidenced by the equidistant live oak trees and roses. It explores how small-scale perceived control masks our ability to address large climate issues. The artwork aims to raise awareness that pristine oases are often man-made, urging the viewer not to be misled by isolated beauty. It’s a call to action, reminding us to consider the holistic perspective of our world’s climatic state.
The piece’s process first involved a one-point perspective drawing that was then transferred into Photoshop. Different color schemes were tested in Photoshop, informing the resolved painting.
3 Flowers
Top 3 Flowers on Procreate
Bottom 3 Flowers Laser Cut onto Acrylic
Three Flowers, is inspired by James Turrell, Paula Rego’s Crivelli’s Garden 1990, and Paulo Crivelli’s The Annunciation, with Saint Emidius 1486.
Three Flowers is a study on light and horizontal compositions. The three images explore how to set a scene to elevate a simple subject within a 2-dimensional surface.
The process involved first creating a procreate drawing on an iPad and then using a laser cutter to etch the drawing onto an acrylic sheet. Then the etched acrylic sheet was inked and put through a traditional print press. The three other versions involved a printer to print the drawing onto 250 gsm paper, then applying watercolors.
3 Flowers Series
Three Flowers Series
Water Color on Print
Black Ink Traditional Print Press (Right bottom corner)
35.5 x 70.5 cm
The Three Flowers Series explores the energy of colours. The red and orange color scheme creates an aura of darkness, while the teal and yellow contradicts this energy. Lastly, the green and blue color scheme redefines dark tones with blue and challenges our perception of the sky with green. (Reference)
The techniques explored through Three Flowers serve as a basis to inform future projects revolving around climate action.
Water Color on Print
Black Ink Traditional Print Press (Right bottom corner)
35.5 x 70.5 cm
The Three Flowers Series explores the energy of colours. The red and orange color scheme creates an aura of darkness, while the teal and yellow contradicts this energy. Lastly, the green and blue color scheme redefines dark tones with blue and challenges our perception of the sky with green. (Reference)
The techniques explored through Three Flowers serve as a basis to inform future projects revolving around climate action.
Levitating Sphere
Oil on Canvas
69 x 100 cm
04/10/2024
Levitating Sphere is a scene set on a London windy day at spring’s beginning.
The painting explores human’s control over the natural world, representing the Anthropocene. The geologic epoch defined by human influence. Industrialization has had a global impact on the Earth. The levitating sphere represents how the globe is something tangible, something in sight, something we can grasp and manipulate.
The precision of the design, sharp lines, and landscaping extenuate this theme. Nature does not grow in such an organized fashion. The painting also explores how creating nature oasis’s within city’s creates false comfort regarding climate action. Although beautiful, creating parks and gardens does not address larger systemic issues regarding climate action.
Artemis
Oil on Canvas
60.5 x 91 cm
15/06/2024
Priced at 2,000 GPB
60.5 x 91 cm
15/06/2024
Priced at 2,000 GPB
The figure in the foreground is Artemis, she is the goddess of the hunt, nature and wilderness. This painting symbolizes the balance we should strive to achieve with nature.