The Freedom Series
This new 2019 body of work is all about energy, movement and freedom. Combining sweeping abstract brushstrokes and realistic bird paintings, it is my hope that the energy and love I have poured into these paintings comes across, and they are viewed as joyful and uplifting. In this series, they are less about the specific birds and more about the act of flying and the freedom and joy that I imagine it to feel like.
There is a more detailed story about how this new series came to be which I have written about in my blog post here.
They are available for sale in my shop here
Hero's Journey, 2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
123 x 90cm
123 x 90cm
Somewhere over the Rainbow, 2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
75 x 50cm
75 x 50cm
Homeward Bound, 2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
91 x 91cm
91 x 91cm
Pink sky at night, 2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
45 x 45cm
45 x 45cm
The Explorer, 2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
91 x 91cm
91 x 91cm
Summer, 2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
91 x 75cm
91 x 75cm
Blackbird, 2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
91 x 91cm
91 x 91cm
Spring, 2019
Oil and acrylic on canvas
55 x76cm
55 x76cm
Tweet this, 2019
Oil and acrylic on cradled wooden panel
25 x 25cm
25 x 25cm
Tweet that, 2019
Oil and acrylic on cradled wooden panel
25 x 25cm
25 x 25cm
Tiniest dancer, 2019
Oil on canvas
45 x 33cm
45 x 33cm
Onward and Upward, 2019
Oil on canvas
45 x 33cm
45 x 33cm
Life in Colour, 2019
Oil on canvas
45 x 33cm
45 x 33cm
Seize the day, 2019
Oil on canvas
45 x 33cm
45 x 33cm
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