The Space Between Reflections set diptych (2026) Original Acrylic Painting by Tatiana Malinovscaia

The Space Between Reflections is an original large contemporary abstract diptych by Tatiana Malinovscaia, created in 2026. Consisting of two acrylic paintings on canvas, each measuring 80 × 100 cm, this textured abstract artwork explores the relationship between architectural structure, reflected light, and the subtle movement of space.

I created these two paintings around an idea that has fascinated me for a long time: how the same visual language can express two completely different atmospheres.
I wanted the diptych to feel connected without making the two canvases identical. Each painting has its own character, its own rhythm, and its own relationship with light. Together, they form a larger composition in which structure, reflection, and movement continue from one canvas to the other.

The first painting is built around a warmer, more grounded palette of soft beige, warm ivory, sand, taupe, stone grey, and earthy brown. These neutral tones are contrasted by expressive areas of charcoal black, deep espresso brown, graphite grey, and muted slate blue.

A strong horizontal division crosses the composition, intersecting with a vertical architectural element. Beneath this intersection, darker passages dissolve into cooler blue-grey tones, creating an impression of depth, shadow, and reflection.
The second painting introduces a lighter, more atmospheric interpretation of the same idea.

Here, layers of soft white, ivory, pale cream, misty blue-grey, silver-grey, and delicate cool blue meet warmer passages of beige, greige, taupe, and muted earthy brown.
Dark accents of charcoal, graphite, blue-black, and espresso brown create a distinctive intersection of horizontal and vertical forms. These structural elements appear to emerge from the luminous background before gradually dissolving into softer layers.

Although the paintings share a similar geometric language, their contrasting atmospheres create a visual dialogue.
One feels more grounded and substantial; the other feels open and almost weightless.
For me, this contrast became the emotional foundation of The Space Between Reflections.

I began working on the two canvases with broad layers of acrylic paint, allowing the compositions to develop gradually rather than following a predetermined image.
Using professional acrylic paints, palette knives, and brushes, I built the surfaces through multiple applications of color, combining layering, glazing, scraping, dragging, dry-brush techniques, and expressive gestural mark-making.
Some areas were partially removed to expose earlier layers, creating complex textures and subtle transitions between colors.

In other passages, I allowed the paint to move more freely, leaving irregular edges, broken lines, and traces of spontaneous gestures.
The horizontal and vertical divisions create an architectural framework, but I deliberately interrupted this structure with softer, atmospheric passages.
I wanted the paintings to suggest the visual relationship between architecture, water, glass, and reflection without depicting a specific building or landscape.

A horizontal line may become a distant shoreline. A dark vertical form may resemble an architectural fragment, a reflection, or a shadow. Pale areas may suggest open sky, diffused daylight, or the surface of water.
These associations are intentionally ambiguous.
I believe abstract painting becomes especially interesting when it leaves room for the viewer's imagination.

The two canvases are connected not only through their colors and geometric elements but also through the space that separates them.
That small physical distance between the paintings becomes part of the composition.

For me, it represents the invisible relationship between two moments, two perspectives, or two reflections of the same imagined environment.
This is why I chose the title The Space Between Reflections.
The diptych exists between geometric abstraction, architectural abstract art, minimalist abstraction, and atmospheric abstract landscape painting.
From a distance, the two paintings create a balanced composition of light and dark, warm and cool, structure and openness.
Viewed closely, their surfaces reveal delicate textures, translucent layers, scraped passages, irregular edges, and subtle variations of beige, grey, blue, brown, and white.

The restrained neutral palette makes this original abstract diptych particularly suitable for contemporary, minimalist, Scandinavian, Japandi, and modern luxury interiors.
With each canvas measuring 80 × 100 cm, the diptych creates an impressive combined composition of approximately 160 × 100 cm, excluding the space between the panels.
Its generous scale makes it a distinctive statement artwork for a living room, above a sofa, in a spacious bedroom, dining area, elegant office, or contemporary architectural interior.
I wanted this diptych to bring a sense of openness and visual harmony while retaining enough contrast and expressive detail to remain engaging over time.
My hope is that its future owner will discover new relationships between the two paintings with every viewing—different reflections, unexpected shapes, and subtle changes in atmosphere as natural light moves through the room.

The Space Between Reflections is a one-of-a-kind original abstract diptych, created entirely by hand in 2026.

Both paintings are stretched on wooden stretcher bars and ready to hang. Each canvas is signed on the front, and the diptych is accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.
The paintings are sold without additional decorative frames.

Materials used:

brush, palette knife, canvas.

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 160 x 100 x 2cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative