Trust the Rain (2025) Original Oil Painting by Toni Cogdell

I have always been pulled to the inner life; how we are fragmented and constantly in motion like the tides. Our awareness moving between our inner world and the world around us, reordering, responding, living in all directions.

My work leans into this, capturing multitudes of moments and markers in time, our through-line gently carving out an inner path with its signs and signals. In my paintings, words, lines and marks create a kind of visual stream-of-consciousness. They run like bedrock beneath the surface, laid out like inner nautical charts mapping our layers; gauging, measuring, telling of warnings and safe passage - an inner guidance system, intuition. The paintings are an interplay of memory, thought and nature, our fragmented lived moments running through us, becoming us, without the noise of digital interference numbing us and silencing our stories.

This piece, Trust the Rain, was made in acrylic paint, spray paint, collage and oil paint on circular wood panel.

Materials used:

Acrylic, Spray Paint, Collage and Oil paint on circular wood panel

Details:

• Oil painting on Panel / Board / MDF
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 70 x 70 x 2cm / 70 x 70cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the back
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: People and portraits