Heart

mixed media on canvas
60 × 80 cm
2025

This artwork portrays my wife, Liuda. We were living in Ukraine, her home country, at the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, and through 2022 and 2023. I painted a portrait of her in the months after our return to the UK in 2024. The next year, it became the mixed-media canvas you see here.

This piece looks for hope and joy within whilst bringing together fragments of mind and body.

It was created by stitching several canvases together, and features a unique fabric frame made from strips of jacquard weave.