Past Midnight

Acrylic and oil on canvas. 16x20 inches. UV filtered varnish for protection against discolouration. Prints also available. 

The artwork presents a beautiful portrait of a woman whose face emerges from a cascade of teal and pink forms that blur the line between ocean and sky. Her visible features are rendered with soft, deliberate detail—an eye that seems to gaze past the viewer, a hint of cheek and brow illuminated as though catching light from an unseen horizon. The surrounding teal shapes swell and curl around her, fluid enough to be waves yet airy enough to drift like clouds, creating an atmosphere that feels both serene and otherworldly.

The ambiguity of these shifting forms becomes the focal point of the piece. Are they waves rising to swallow her, or clouds parting to reveal her presence? This uncertainty infuses the composition with a dreamlike tension, as though the woman exists between two realms, neither completely submerged nor fully revealed.