Heart

Mixed media on canvas
60 × 80 cm
2025

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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.

  • This piece was created using acrylic paint, charcoal and jacquard tapestry on canvas. I tear up my canvases and bits of painting I make, and I stitch them together with my sewing machine. I also digitally design the sections of tapestry that are woven for me by a weaving studio in the US.

    My creative process is very playful, experimental and always evolving. I take images I think look good, of things I connect with and which have some poetic symbolism. I try a lot of combinations of images, colours and text to try and find balance in a composition. Many iterations and a continuing process of creating, layering and destroying images lead to the fragmented and fractured aesthetic of my works.

  • This artwork is sold unframed. The canvas is left raw to give an unfinished look, reflecting that everyone's life is a work in progress.

    If you would like to discuss framing options, please contact me.

  • Please allow up to 4 weeks for postage/shipping. Most pieces are shipped within a few days and arrive in a week.

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  • If something doesn’t quite match what you are looking for or if you want an artwork to fit your space, there is an opportunity to create a custom piece. I am happy to work with a well-defined set of colours and ideas, or if you wish to provide photos of the subject for the piece. Similarly, even if you are not quite sure what you would like but are looking for a beautiful, unique and personal artwork, I would love to chat and work together to produce a commissioned piece. Get in touch for more information.