The Butterfly Ballerina | Limited Edition Giclée Print
Medium: Mixed media – Ink, Watercolour, Acrylic
Style: Expressive, fluid, ethereal
Techniques: Delicate brushwork, soft layering, graceful movement
Palette: Muted tones of sage green, soft pinks, and natural earth hues, creating an air of elegance and transformation
Key Features: A poetic fusion of dance and metamorphosis, embodying the fragility and strength within self-discovery
Created during Chapter 2 (2020 - 2023), this piece is part of the Versions of Robert Collection—a deeply personal body of work reflecting my journey through my mother’s stroke, dissociation, and eventual dementia. This period of my life involved immense inner soul work, each piece acting as a page in a diary, capturing the shifts in my emotional landscape.
“The Butterfly Ballerina” symbolises the dance of the soul—the delicate, fleeting beauty of transformation and the graceful resilience required to move through life’s transitions. The sweeping strokes create a sense of movement, as if the figure is mid-dance, embodying both the weight and the lightness of change.
This piece invites the viewer to reflect on:
• The dance between fragility and strength
• The moment of transformation—where past and present meet in motion
• The beauty of becoming, even in uncertainty
A deeply poetic expression of grace, metamorphosis, and the dance of the inner soul.
Details:
- Size: A4 Illustration
- Material: Mixed media on paper
- Unframed
- Original Illustration available
- Only 150 prints available in this edition
Giclée Print | The Butterfly Ballerina
by Robert Paul:
The Butterfly Ballerina
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The butterfly ballerina
……..catches her soul
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