Dimensions
140 × 95 × 3 cm
Approx. 55” × 37.4” × 1.4”
Medium
Original oil on museum-grade, extra-fine linen, traditionally oil-primed and mounted on archival wooden museum stretchers.
Exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London (2024).
Offered unframed.
Emergence explores scale, silence, and restrained illumination.
A branch of sakura enters from shadow, its blossoms resolved with deliberate clarity against a dark ground. The composition holds tension between fragility and force — the weight of the branch countered by the lightness of bloom.
At this scale, the gesture becomes architectural. Each petal is rendered with controlled precision, allowing luminosity to unfold gradually across the surface. The darkness does not recede; it anchors.
The work considers the threshold between concealment and revelation — not as metaphor, but as structure.
A branch advancing from shadow.
A form held in becoming.
Dimensions
140 × 95 × 3 cm
Approx. 55” × 37.4” × 1.4”
Medium
Original oil on museum-grade, extra-fine linen, traditionally oil-primed and mounted on archival wooden museum stretchers.
Exhibited at the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London (2024).
Offered unframed.
Emergence explores scale, silence, and restrained illumination.
A branch of sakura enters from shadow, its blossoms resolved with deliberate clarity against a dark ground. The composition holds tension between fragility and force — the weight of the branch countered by the lightness of bloom.
At this scale, the gesture becomes architectural. Each petal is rendered with controlled precision, allowing luminosity to unfold gradually across the surface. The darkness does not recede; it anchors.
The work considers the threshold between concealment and revelation — not as metaphor, but as structure.
A branch advancing from shadow.
A form held in becoming.
