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Between Seen and Hidden

This collection explores the quiet space between who we appear to be and who we are becoming. 

Through expressive portraiture and symbolic imagery, these works reflect themes of authenticity, vulnerability, resilience and the courage to be truly seen. Each piece invites a moment of stillness, encouraging the viewer to find their own story within the work.

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Between Seen and Hidden

Close-up mixed media portrait showing green eyes emerging through a textured warm ochre surface, wit

Pastel, Charcoal & Acylic on Wooden Canvas

420 x 600 mm

2025

R2 550 - Available 


 A moment of becoming — where visibility begins, but does not yet demand completion. 

Ember

 Pastel & Charcoal on Wooden Canvas

300 x 420 mm

2025

R1 800 - Available 


A portrait born of fire and reflection.
The delicate creases of the surface carry traces of time, like scars of experience.
Here, emotion glows quietly — a soul illuminated from within. 

Emergence

Listen to the unspoken

Side-profile mixed media portrait of a woman facing left, rendered in muted grey tones with expressi

Pastel & Charcoal on Wooden Canvas

594 x 841 mm

2025

R3 500 - Available 


From shadow into light - the moment healing begins and the cracks start to glow.

A quiet awakening of strength and self.


Listen to the unspoken

Listen to the unspoken

Listen to the unspoken

Soulful portrait artwork in warm tones showing a side profile, conveying quiet intensity, restrained

Pastel & Charcoal on Paper - Unfraimed

300 x 420 mm

2025

R1 300 - Available 


 A quiet moment of inward attention, where listening replaces speaking. 


From the Shadow

Listen to the unspoken

From the Shadow

Frontal mixed media portrait of a woman with one side of her face in shadow and the other softly lit

Pastel & Charcoal on Paper -Unfraimed

300 x 420 mm

2025

R1 800 - Available 


 A moment of becoming — where visibility begins, but does not yet demand completion. 

Fractured

Listen to the unspoken

From the Shadow

Pastel & Charcoal on Wooden Canvas

300 x 420 mm

2025

R1 800 - Available 


Sometimes we have to shatter completely before we can let the light in.
This piece holds both strength and vulnerability — the beauty that remains when everything breaks open.

Shedding

Veil of Light

Veil of Light

Portrait art with emotion depicting a woman’s face partially obscured, expressing transformation, id

 Pastel & Charcoal on Wooden Canvas

300 x 420 mm

2025

R1 800 - Available 


Half-hidden, half-revealed — the mask begins to crumble.
Beneath the surface, something more honest emerges: raw, imperfect, alive.
A quiet release of the self that once had to hold everything together.
 

Veil of Light

Veil of Light

Veil of Light

Three-quarter view mixed media portrait of a woman with green eyes in muted grey tones against a tex

Pastel & Charcoal Wooden Canvas

300 x 420 mm

2025

R1 800 - Available 


 A quiet moment at the threshold — where stillness meets becoming. 

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