Against Current (2026) Original Acrylic Painting by Gera Dunachie

Teal blue, pale grey and deep navy meet in an abstract composition crossed by dark, sweeping lines. Scraped and layered passages reveal traces of pink, maroon and orange beneath the cooler surface. Against Current began with fast music and slow, controlled movement: the feeling of speed held in check.

Its horizontal format would sit well above a sideboard, in a study or in a contemporary reception space. The blue-grey palette gives it a quiet presence from across a room, while the shifts in colour and visible layers invite a closer look.

Acrylics on cradled wood panel.
84 × 60 cm.
Framed in a black float tray.
Protected with satin anti-UV varnish.
Signed and supplied with a certificate of authenticity.

I'm a London-based abstract painter working with acrylic and mixed media on cradled wood panel. My paintings build through layering and reduction. They tend to be geometric in structure, with colour that moves between cold restraint and moments of warmth and friction.

I have aphantasia and synaesthesia, which means that I can't visualise in advance and colour arrives as sensation rather than image. Each painting develops through that process, with earlier marks and decisions left visible in the surface. What remains is what earned its place.

Materials used:

Acrylic on cradled wood panel

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Panel / Board / MDF
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 85 x 60 x 3cm (framed)
• Framed and ready to hang
• Signed certificate of authenticity
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative