Tide and Ember - Original Mixed Media on Canvas, 2025

I began it earlier, then stepped away. It sat unresolved for a while. When I returned to it in 2025, it became the first piece I completed that year. It carries that feeling of hesitation and return.

While working on it, I kept imagining waves crashing against heated soil. Cold salt water meeting something sunburnt and dry.

The deep greens gather like a moving body of water. Dense, layered, almost tidal. The red along the edge feels exposed, raw, heated from within. Where they meet, there is disruption. Drips, splashes, mineral textures.

It feels geological. Not decorative. As if something is shifting slowly beneath the surface.

It is about pressure meeting resistance. About returning to something unfinished and allowing it to resolve on its own terms.

For someone drawn to darker palettes. Someone who understands that beauty can be heavy and still magnetic.

Artwork Details

• Original artwork
• Mixed media on canvas
• 50 x 70 cm
• Completed in 2025
• Signed by the artist
• Ready to hang