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Series Echoes: Animal I (2026) Original Mixed-media Painting by Edel Alonso Bello
100 x 120 x 2cm (unframed)
£2,098.73
Original artwork description
This painting explores the fragmentation of identity through a visceral, abstracted human form. Built in layered gestures of deep reds, muted greys, and subtle cyan, the figure emerges and dissolves simultaneously—suggesting a psyche in tension, caught between exposure and concealment.
The composition is driven by instinctive mark-making: scratches, overlaps, and blurred transitions evoke both flesh and memory, as if the body itself were a site of emotional residue. The central mass feels wounded yet resilient, carrying traces of struggle, desire, and transformation.
Rather than offering a fixed narrative, the work invites the viewer into an intimate psychological space—where perception shifts, and the human presence becomes unstable, almost spectral. It is a portrait not of appearance, but of internal states: fractured, raw, and deeply alive.
Materials used:
oil and acrylic on canvas
Details:
- Mixed-media painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 100 x 120 x 2cm (unframed)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#gestural#existential#psychological#emotional#human figure#abstract figurative#introspective#inner landscape#dark palette#deconstructed body
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Original artwork description
This painting explores the fragmentation of identity through a visceral, abstracted human form. Built in layered gestures of deep reds, muted greys, and subtle cyan, the figure emerges and dissolves simultaneously—suggesting a psyche in tension, caught between exposure and concealment.
The composition is driven by instinctive mark-making: scratches, overlaps, and blurred transitions evoke both flesh and memory, as if the body itself were a site of emotional residue. The central mass feels wounded yet resilient, carrying traces of struggle, desire, and transformation.
Rather than offering a fixed narrative, the work invites the viewer into an intimate psychological space—where perception shifts, and the human presence becomes unstable, almost spectral. It is a portrait not of appearance, but of internal states: fractured, raw, and deeply alive.
Materials used:
oil and acrylic on canvas
Details:
- Mixed-media painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 100 x 120 x 2cm (unframed)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#gestural#existential#psychological#emotional#human figure#abstract figurative#introspective#inner landscape#dark palette#deconstructed body