Transcendence

Oil painting on stretched canvas. Signed on the front and ready to hang. All artworks come with a Certificate of Authenticity.

51 x 76 x 4 cm

I recently came out of a few difficult years, where I felt hidden, emotionally abandoned, shut out, repressed, silenced, over-burdened, like a shadow of my former self. In the time that followed, after some major life changes,  I underwent a complete personal transformation. It took a while for me to breathe again, but once I did, it was an incredible feeling. Parts of me that I thought had long since died began to reemerge, piece by tiny piece. I started to see life in full colour again and I encountered new experiences that breathed me full of a renewed lust for life. 

There is an incredible power in reconnecting fully to oneself. Too many of us learn to let ourselves go, to make ourselves smaller, quieter, less than we really are. 

In this time I also discovered a lot of pain that I had been holding on to. With each wonderful new moment that arrived, another part of my dark shadow was revealed to me. It was beautiful, it was terrifying. I wanted to escape it at first, but the new feelings growing inside of me were too strong to ignore, I sensed something profound, something I had to dig deeper into. 

This work expresses visually the feeling of this emotional rebirth. I have given myself fully to life, to the possibilities that lay before me, no matter how overwhelming. The scarier, the better. After all, that part of me had been dead for too long. Now is the time to live. Now is the time for us all to live.

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