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Abstract Emotion
Oil and gold leaf on canvas · 40 × 50 in (102 × 127 cm)
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Abstract Emotion
Portrait of an Unfinished Thought
2025 · Oil and gold leaf on linen · 48 × 60 in (122 × 152 cm)
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Price Upon RequestThe largest work in the studio, and the one that argued the longest.
- Collection
- Abstract Emotion
- Year
- 2025
- Medium
- Oil and gold leaf on linen
- Surface
- Belgian linen, hand-primed
- Dimensions
- 48 × 60 in (122 × 152 cm)
- Framing
- Unframed; floater frame in antique gold available on request
- Edition
- Original
- Reference
- AG-015
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The Story Behind the Painting
Why this painting exists
Nine months. Three complete repaints. The version you see is the one that finally stopped asking me for anything.
Inspiration
Personal memory, the particular light of the American South, and the classical European interiors I studied as a student.
Colour & Symbolism
Blue holds distance and memory. Peach and rose hold the body and the present moment. The deepest maroon is grief, used sparingly and never at the centre.
The Creation Process
Oil and gold leaf on linen, worked in thin layers over several weeks. The composition shifted more than once before the final resolution.
Artist Reflection
When I stand in front of it now I feel the same quiet I felt the morning it was finished — a little exposed, and glad of it.
Message to the Viewer
I hope you recognise something of your own life in it, even if you cannot name what it is.
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