No Way Out but Through – Original (2025)

Materials: Oil on wood – unframed

Dimensions: 12 × 12 inches (approx. 30×30 cm)

A smaller piece, rich in texture and meaning — perfect for starting or adding to your collection.

This oil sketch captures an eerie stretch of canal, where green shadows fold into each other and the light feels heavy. A lone canoe drifts through the stillness.

Inspired by a reference photo from Sterling Lanier, the colour palette is turned up to eleven — acid greens, electric pinks, and flashes of cool steel. It’s a study in contrasts: the unnatural made beautiful, the unsettling made still.

The light and paint application take centre stage — thick, juicy impasto catches the eye in sculptural ridges, while thinner glazes dissolve into shadow. It’s less about realism, more about atmosphere — a dream-space caught mid-melt.

Painted from imagination, sketches, and reference, this piece came together in one focused sitting. It’s a love letter to uneasy beauty and the strange calm of moving forward when you can’t go back.

Materials & Craftsmanship
Oil on wood panel
12 × 12 inches (approx. 30 × 30 cm)

The panel is 2 cm deep and cradled — ready to hang, no frame required.
A one-off original — once sold, it won’t be repeated.

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