"Descent"

Specifications: Landscape, 70cm x 100cm. Oil, pre-primed canvas. Palette-knife impasto on a deep charcoal ground. High quality, unframed canvas — edges finished for display without a frame. Status: Original, Signed. Queries welcome to add colour to pieces, prices, or bespoke requests. Description: A figure curls tightly into herself, caught mid-fall or mid-landing against a near-black ground - it's genuinely hard to tell if she's dropping or has just touched down. Her hair streams upward and back in warm gold and amber, completely at odds with gravity, like it hasn't caught up with the rest of her yet. One shoulder carries a single wound of deep red and orange, raw against all that soft pink - the one place where the colour breaks from calm into something sharper. The body itself is built in thick, sculptural ridges of pale pink, almost shell-like, curved in on itself the way a body goes small on instinct before it decides what happens next. It's a held breath rendered in paint - the moment just before landing, or just before getting back up. Art Should be Accessible: This is the piece about the moment right before you land - body pulled in tight, protecting what's soft, while everything else keeps moving around her: hair streaming, gravity uncertain, one shoulder still raw from wherever she's just come from. It's not peaceful. It's not resolved. She's mid-motion, caught between falling and catching herself, and that in-between is exactly where the painting lives. 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. These lessons don't leave us, and honestly? 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 💛