"Cloud of Heartbreak"

Specifications: Portrait, 50 x 60cm. Oil, pre-primed canvas. Palette-knife impasto. High Quality, white framed floating canvas. Status: Original, Signed. Queries welcome on pieces. Description: A figure folds in on herself, knees drawn up, shirt is swimming in reds, warm ochre, and gold paired with dark wine-red pants draping her torso like an exterior bruise - and where her head should be, a dense knot of hearts erupts instead, spilling sideways like it's being carried off by wind. Two pale hands shiver down from within the mass, the only soft, human-coloured thing left of her body, her hair cascades, there's no evidence that tears made it to her cheeks. Her pose is protective, closed, almost foetal - but her head itself has stopped being a head at all. It's become weather: a cloud, a swarm, something that has grown too large and too heavy to stay contained in the shape of a face. The warm palette-knife impasto of the body reads almost like sunburnt earth or weathered driftwood, giving the whole figure a rawness that sits underneath the softness of the pink hearts above it - as if the heartbreak is sitting directly on top of an exposed nervous system. Art Should be Accessible: This is the piece about carrying too much for too long: not the moment of breaking, but what's left sitting there afterward, curled up and still trying to hold herself together while her feelings keep growing outward, uncontained and wild - these feelings are likely to never leave her...however, the experience becomes something she carries forward - a quiet kind of wisdom she can pass on to her daughter 👧, share with a friend 🤍, lean on herself when it's needed again. There will always be more of them coming. That's just the deal. 🤕❤️‍🩹 From my Heart to Yours: I'd love to hear your thoughts - constructive criticism is always welcome, just please deliver it with heart 💛 And if a piece speaks to you, hitting 'save' means the world Lanes💙