Gaia | Oil pastel on cardstock, 53x60cm

Oil pastel, water colour and charcoal on cardstock, 42.5x50cm (2026).

The Titan of the Earth, mother of all and wife to Ouranos. Gaia is the bearer of all the joy and pain provoked by her creation effort, though her stereotypical role as vessel to the myth-makers, her male counterparts, belies her impact. A force of nature in her own category entirely, she is depicted in a pose which protest her unintrusive narrative role. The Titan series in oil pastel aims to capture a well-worn story as just that, displaying not the elemental power, nor the godly cruelty engendered in both myth and retelling, but an alternate viewpoint from which the titans are not so indelible. Oil pastel offers a creatively freeing approach to drawing, in which layers can be built up, scratched out, blended and played with in a multitude of ways. Results are instantly visible and potent formal elements quickly achieved, so that the focus of working with such expressive tools naturally lies more in the emotional than technical reproduction of a subject matter.

This item comes FRAMED (53x60cm) as displayed in the second image.