Acrylic on canvas, 120cm x 90cm
This one sits somewhere between rustic and modern for me. I built up the surface with thick, vertical marks — it started feeling like an old rug or weathered planks, all that texture from scraping and layering. The base is mostly muted grays and browns, kind of raw, unfinished.
Then I added that blue line near the bottom. I didn’t plan it. I just needed something to cut through all the vertical movement and hold it together. There’s a bit of rusty orange in there too, where the underpainting shows. It gives it some warmth so it doesn’t go too cold or industrial.
When I look at it now, it feels like standing in a forest but also like looking at a woven textile. The blue divides everything, like a horizon or a thread running through. I wasn’t going for a specific scene. I was just working until it felt like it could live in a modern loft or an old farmhouse and not feel out of place. That balance between rustic and clean is what I was after.
Acrylic on canvas, 120cm x 90cm
This one sits somewhere between rustic and modern for me. I built up the surface with thick, vertical marks — it started feeling like an old rug or weathered planks, all that texture from scraping and layering. The base is mostly muted grays and browns, kind of raw, unfinished.
Then I added that blue line near the bottom. I didn’t plan it. I just needed something to cut through all the vertical movement and hold it together. There’s a bit of rusty orange in there too, where the underpainting shows. It gives it some warmth so it doesn’t go too cold or industrial.
When I look at it now, it feels like standing in a forest but also like looking at a woven textile. The blue divides everything, like a horizon or a thread running through. I wasn’t going for a specific scene. I was just working until it felt like it could live in a modern loft or an old farmhouse and not feel out of place. That balance between rustic and clean is what I was after.