Learning To Fly (2026) Original Acrylic Painting by Adam Bogusz

There is a moment at the very edge of something you have always wanted, when the only thing left to gather is your courage. You do not learn to fly until you are willing to fall.
Learning to Fly is an original acrylic painting on board, 60 x 40cm, part of my ongoing series The Middle Country. It began the way these paintings always do, with a loose, accidental ground, half accident and half intention, made somewhere in the middle where the paint and I meet. Out of that ground came a vivid teal and orange landscape, cockatoos gathered at its edges, a burst of red beneath a young girl's feet, and her own shadow standing just behind her, watching her take the leap.
I paint the things that mean something to me: my family, held in the figures and the birds who move through this glowing, imagined landscape. This one is about the particular courage it takes to risk falling, because there is no other way to find out you could have flown.
Painted with artist quality acrylics on MDF board. Ready to hang. Certificate of authenticity included. Ships worldwide direct from my studio in Brisbane, Australia.

Materials used:

Acrylic

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Panel / Board / MDF
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 40 x 60 x 2.5cm (unframed) / 40 x 60cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Landscapes, sea and sky