Tights (2025) Original Oil Painting by Diana Ivashkevich
50 x 100 x 5cm (unframed) / 50 x 100cm (actual image size)
£5,144.4
Original artwork description
Tights — “Healing” Series
This painting is part of my “Healing” series — a body of work exploring childhood memories, vulnerability and the traces that early experiences leave within us.
The torn tights represent a seemingly ordinary detail from childhood. Yet for me, they carry the memory of growing up with very little — of wearing things that were already damaged, of noticing what other children had, and of learning very early to feel embarrassment about something I could not change.
In the painting, this small everyday object becomes a symbol of childhood vulnerability and the quiet shame that can accompany poverty. These experiences may appear insignificant from an adult perspective, but for a child they can become deeply embedded in their sense of self.
Creating this work is not an attempt to remain inside that memory. It is a way of returning to it from an adult perspective, recognising what the child experienced and transforming it into something visible.
This is what Healing means to me: not erasing the past, but changing my relationship with it.
Materials used:
oil, canvas
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 50 x 100 x 5cm (unframed) / 50 x 100cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed certificate of authenticity
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
Tights — “Healing” Series
This painting is part of my “Healing” series — a body of work exploring childhood memories, vulnerability and the traces that early experiences leave within us.
The torn tights represent a seemingly ordinary detail from childhood. Yet for me, they carry the memory of growing up with very little — of wearing things that were already damaged, of noticing what other children had, and of learning very early to feel embarrassment about something I could not change.
In the painting, this small everyday object becomes a symbol of childhood vulnerability and the quiet shame that can accompany poverty. These experiences may appear insignificant from an adult perspective, but for a child they can become deeply embedded in their sense of self.
Creating this work is not an attempt to remain inside that memory. It is a way of returning to it from an adult perspective, recognising what the child experienced and transforming it into something visible.
This is what Healing means to me: not erasing the past, but changing my relationship with it.
Materials used:
oil, canvas
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 50 x 100 x 5cm (unframed) / 50 x 100cm (actual image size)
- Ready to hang
- Signed certificate of authenticity
- Style: Expressive and gestural
- Subject: People and portraits
