Is it Burning?
Title: Is It Burning?
Medium: Mixed Media on Gallery-Wrapped Canvas
Dimensions: 80 cm x 60 cm (approx. 744 square inches)
Price: SOLD
Description:
In Is It Burning?, the sky becomes a living canvas, a visceral wash of fire, wind, and unanswered questions. Bathed in the molten hues of ochre, crimson, and gold, the horizon pulses with intensity, yet offers no clear resolution. Is this a sunset or a warning? Renewal or devastation? The field, scorched and still, bends in silhouette beneath the weight of sky and silence.
The composition is spacious, yet emotionally charged. Birds move across the heavens, barely marked, as though witnessing something ancient and sacred, or perhaps fleeing something unknowable. Through bold, gestural brushwork and luminous blending, the painting holds space for inner reckoning, with nature, with change, with our place in the elemental dance.
Symbolism:
The grasses symbolise the rooted self, fragile yet grounded. The sky, a mirror of emotional terrain, suggests both purification and peril. The birds carry the spirit of the witness, inviting us to rise above narrative and observe the beauty within transformation.