Midnight Blues Part II : Flowers
“I used flowers and other symbols as emotional vessels, hiding personal experiences within allegorical imagery.”
An addition of four new canvas paintings has been added to the May Collection.
In contrast to the direct and confrontational nature of the Evil Eye series, these new works are softer and more symbolic. The paintings use flowers, stems, roots and vein-like forms to explore the fragility of relationships, friendships and emotional bonds. Held together by promises, truths and exchanges between people, these intertwining forms become physical tethers throughout the paintings. The works do not depict real flowers or plants, but instead use symbolic forms as emotional vessels hiding personal experiences within allegorical imagery.
Suspended in Abyss
Size : 40cm x 50cm
Acrylic , Oil Pastels , Spray Paint
Painting on Canvas
Description :
A moment held after it has already passed suspended in both time and feeling. The painting sits within an emotional afterglow, where beauty and melancholy coexist, echoing the quiet weight of memory. Saturated blues flood the surface, suggesting depth, distance, and the lingering trace of something once lived.
The composition is intentionally busy motifs of eyes, florals, and fragments collide and overlap, yet remain tethered by branching stems and root-like forms. These connections hold the chaos together, like memories intertwined through love, promises, and trust.
Encased in gold, the work feels archived framed as something to be looked back on rather than lived within. It becomes a preserved experience, rich and layered, inviting the viewer to pause, reflect, and reminisce as time continues to move forward.
Poison Ivy
Size : 70 x 50 cm
Painting on Canvas
Acrylic, Water Colour, Oil Pastels
Description
Poison Ivy explores a love that is intoxicating yet harmful, one that restricts growth but remains impossible to resist. The ultra-saturated marine blue sets the emotional tone, evoking attraction, danger, and obsession. The work reflects the tension of loving someone despite knowing the cost, drawn in by a force that feels both beautiful and destructive.
Process
This painting was created by intertwining oil, acrylic, and texture paste to build layers of depth and movement. Texture paste formed the foundation, guiding the composition, before layers of paint were worked in and over one another. The aim was to make the stems feel rigid and protruding from the surface, using subtle, vague shading to suggest stiffness and tension. The materials were woven together intuitively, allowing the surface and colour to shape the final form.
What is …
The Midnight Blues : Evil Eye series is a collection of nine works centered around the symbol of the evil eye, consisting of three canvas paintings and six A4 works on paper.
Description :
This collection presents a series of dark, blue-toned paintings, unified by the recurring motif of eyes and abstract organic forms. Created in the months following a heartbreak, the works emerged through subconscious, instinct-driven processes each brushstroke a way to navigate emotion and find balance. Shades of Prussian blue, Phthalo, and Ultra-Marine evoking nocturnal, underwater, or dreamlike atmospheres.
Some pieces are minimalist, focusing on a single eye, while others layer swirling textures, hidden shapes, and abstract forms, creating depth and quiet tension. The eyes suggest perception, consciousness, and presence, they reflect not only the themes of being seen but also the complex interplay of intimacy, longing, and the ways outside forces can make one feel watched or exposed.
Together, the collection feels like fragments of a larger vision interconnected yet distinct drawing viewers into a meditative and surreal world. Through these blues, the works carry emotion and movement, allowing the paintings to speak beyond words, exploring the subconscious thought, and the delicate balance between love and vulnerability.
Process
I build each canvas with texture paste, creating ridges and layers, then painting motifs in ultramarine blue, letting the shapes guide the composition. The process is slow and patient, it takes me ages to get it right. The eyes became my focus, not as a cultural symbol, but as a way to explore the mind’s quiet tension , lingering, watching and imagined conversations.
Figures exist in conversation with each other, alongside forms that carry spiritual stillness. Together they create a composition of wandering attention, obsessive pondering, and my cycles of thought that emerge in the stillness of midnight.
Size : A4 21.0 cm × 29.7 cm
Frame : 45cm H x 32.7cm W x 3cm D
Works on Paper
Description
A peacock moves through the night, carrying a beauty that cannot be hidden.
Everyone looks, everyone has something to say good or bad, it doesn’t matter, the attention is constant.
In this piece, the peacock becomes a reflection of that experience.
The eyes are not just decorative they hold the weight of being seen, judged, and imagined by others. There is no control over the narrative, only the feeling of being watched.
But within that, there is also protection.
The eyes act as a shield, a quiet guard against negative energy and unseen chatter.
This work sits between beauty and paranoia between wanting to be seen and needing to feel guarded. A contradiction.
Size : A4 21.0 cm × 29.7 cm
Frame : 45cm H x 32.7cm W x 3cm D
Works on Paper
Description
A peacock moves through the night, carrying a beauty that cannot be hidden.
Everyone looks, everyone has something to say good or bad, it doesn’t matter, the attention is constant.
In this piece, the peacock becomes a reflection of that experience.
The eyes are not just decorative they hold the weight of being seen, judged, and imagined by others. There is no control over the narrative, only the feeling of being watched.
But within that, there is also protection.
The eyes act as a shield, a quiet guard against negative energy and unseen chatter.
This work sits between beauty and paranoia between wanting to be seen and needing to feel guarded. A contradiction.
