Learning how to belong (2025) Original Oil Painting by Angeline Maas

This painting explores the fragile space between autonomy and influence.
The figures occupy a world where guidance, expectation and care intertwine. Hands emerge from beyond the frame, suggesting forces that shape u long before we bocome aware of them: family, culture, memory, love and authority.

Trough layers of transparency, unfinished forms and expressive color, the work embraces uncertainty. Identity is presented nogt as something fixed, but as an ongoing negotiation between who we are, who others believe us to be and who we hope to become.

Materials used:

oil on linnen

Details:

• Oil painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 130 x 148 x 4cm (unframed) / 130 x 149cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: People and portraits