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Original Oil Painting The Equilibrist Dream (2026)Oil painting by Mariia Bashtova
91.44 x 121.92 x 3.81cm (unframed) / 91.44 x 121.92cm (actual image size)
£2,825.11
Original artwork description
“The Equilibrist’s Dream”
In this painting, the equilibrist is no longer a performer before an audience, but a solitary figure held within a quiet inner space. Removed from the stage, she appears suspended inside a dreamlike architecture — a place of winding staircases, shifting planes, and uncertain ground.
Her posture does not suggest spectacle or physical risk. Instead, it reflects inward concentration. She does not balance on a rope or a platform, but on herself — gathering motion into stillness, folding toward an inner center. The long braid descending toward the floor acts as a quiet axis, a fragile connection to gravity within a world that otherwise refuses orientation.
The surrounding architecture is not a literal location but a psychological landscape. The repeating arches and endless stairways suggest a mind searching for direction where none is fixed. The gently warping checkerboard floor introduces a subtle instability, as if the ground itself slowly moves beneath her, making balance an act of awareness rather than control.
“The Equilibrist’s Dream” is a meditation on restraint, attention, and inner balance. The figure neither advances nor retreats; she remains in a suspended moment between movement and rest, gravity and intention. The painting reflects a familiar human condition — the effort to remain centered while the world shifts around us.
Painted in a restrained palette of ochres, muted blues, and soft neutrals, the work is intended to create a calm but contemplative presence within a space. Rather than dramatic tension, it offers a quiet psychological atmosphere that slowly unfolds the longer one looks.
The painting is created on a 1.5 inch (3.8 cm) gallery-wrapped canvas and the sides are painted, so it can be displayed without a frame.
If desired, the artwork can be beautifully presented in a floating frame (also called a tray frame). This type of frame is specifically designed for gallery-wrapped canvases and creates a small gap around the painting, giving the artwork a clean, elegant “floating” appearance.
Floating frames are widely used in galleries and allow the full depth of the canvas to remain visible while adding a refined finished look.
Materials used:
Stretched canvas, Oil, Varnish
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 91.44 x 121.92 x 3.81cm (unframed) / 91.44 x 121.92cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Surrealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#contemporary painting#female painting#oil original#surreal painting#surreal abstract#figurative surrealism#large artwokr
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Original artwork description
“The Equilibrist’s Dream”
In this painting, the equilibrist is no longer a performer before an audience, but a solitary figure held within a quiet inner space. Removed from the stage, she appears suspended inside a dreamlike architecture — a place of winding staircases, shifting planes, and uncertain ground.
Her posture does not suggest spectacle or physical risk. Instead, it reflects inward concentration. She does not balance on a rope or a platform, but on herself — gathering motion into stillness, folding toward an inner center. The long braid descending toward the floor acts as a quiet axis, a fragile connection to gravity within a world that otherwise refuses orientation.
The surrounding architecture is not a literal location but a psychological landscape. The repeating arches and endless stairways suggest a mind searching for direction where none is fixed. The gently warping checkerboard floor introduces a subtle instability, as if the ground itself slowly moves beneath her, making balance an act of awareness rather than control.
“The Equilibrist’s Dream” is a meditation on restraint, attention, and inner balance. The figure neither advances nor retreats; she remains in a suspended moment between movement and rest, gravity and intention. The painting reflects a familiar human condition — the effort to remain centered while the world shifts around us.
Painted in a restrained palette of ochres, muted blues, and soft neutrals, the work is intended to create a calm but contemplative presence within a space. Rather than dramatic tension, it offers a quiet psychological atmosphere that slowly unfolds the longer one looks.
The painting is created on a 1.5 inch (3.8 cm) gallery-wrapped canvas and the sides are painted, so it can be displayed without a frame.
If desired, the artwork can be beautifully presented in a floating frame (also called a tray frame). This type of frame is specifically designed for gallery-wrapped canvases and creates a small gap around the painting, giving the artwork a clean, elegant “floating” appearance.
Floating frames are widely used in galleries and allow the full depth of the canvas to remain visible while adding a refined finished look.
Materials used:
Stretched canvas, Oil, Varnish
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 91.44 x 121.92 x 3.81cm (unframed) / 91.44 x 121.92cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the front
- Style: Surrealistic
- Subject: People and portraits
Tags:
#contemporary painting#female painting#oil original#surreal painting#surreal abstract#figurative surrealism#large artwokr