Mother Earth’s Shadow | Original Art | Canvas
 
Medium:
    •    Mixed media – Ink, Watercolour, Acrylic
Style:
    •    Expressive, abstract, meditative
Techniques:
    •    Fluid brushstrokes, embodying movement and reflection
    •    Soft contrasts between dark and earthy tones, evoking depth and grounding
    •    Negative space playing a role in balance and presence
Palette:
    •    Deep charcoal and muted earth tones, symbolising the shadow’s presence and quiet wisdom
    •    Gentle washes of warmth, hinting at renewal and connection
Key Features:
    •    A visual representation of presence, reflection, and surrender
    •    The silhouette-like form suggests a quiet observer, the unseen force of Mother Earth watching over
    •    The interplay between shadow and light mirrors the emotions of pause, transformation, and reconnection


Description:
 
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, accompanied by a poem or story.
 
“Mother Earth’s Shadow” embodies the quiet weight of witnessing. It speaks to the moments when the world’s heaviness pauses within us, when the magnitude of everything forces us into silence, into detachment, into reflection. The painting captures that sense of holding grief, of feeling lost in the shadow of something greater than ourselves, and yet still yearning for connection, for an answer, for an awakening.
 
This piece invites the viewer to consider:
•    What do we carry that we do not say?
•    How do we sit with the weight of the world?
•    Can silence itself be a form of love?
 
This piece is both a meditation and a message—one that asks us to pause, listen, and let the silence speak.
 

Details:
 
- Size: A4 Illustration
- Material: Mixed media on paper 
- Unframed 
- Original, signed by the artist
- Limited Edition Giclée Prints Available – 150 prints total across three sizes, including the original size