‘Booked and Slightly Surrounded’

20x20x4 cm (8x8x1.6 inch)

Oils and mixed media on gallery wrapped canvas, 2025

Including a Certificate of Authenticity

She sits tucked behind her book, absorbed in its pages, while the pile of unread stories rises protectively in front of her.

Two black cats lean into each other at her side, a quiet gesture of companionship and comfort.

The surface is alive with marks and textures, scribbled lines, layered gestures, and soft interruptions of colour. Grounding earthy tones, whites, pinks, and flashes of blue fort he lightness and play.

The abstract surroundings don’t describe a place so much, but rather the landscape of her mind: the swirl of thoughts, the weight of stories still waiting to be read, and the gentle warmth of companionship.

The marks and colours echo both the chaos and the comfort of imagination, as if the world around her is made of the very tales she’s holding close.

This painting is about that familiar state of being “booked and slightly surrounded” by stories, by company, by the gentle chaos of life’s little piles.

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