Acrylic on canvas
35.5 x 25cm
2026
Unframed
Artist's Comment:
"I worked with layers of darker colour, allowing earlier marks and fragments to remain visible beneath the surface. Areas of warmer colour move around and through the darker forms, while small marks and glimpses of light appear and disappear across the painting. I wanted there to be a sense of something being held together, while never feeling completely still or settled."
Poem for What It Takes To Hold
Some days
it is enough
that nothing falls.
That the doors still open,
the wheels still turn,
the small things find their places
as though they always have.
No one sees
what it takes.
The quiet gathering
of all the scattered parts,
the careful hands
around the edges,
the little less of you each time.
And somewhere beneath it all,
something broken
is carried still…
not mended,
not left behind,
simply held
alongside everything else.
Reserved for exhibition