Without Looking Back (2026) Original Acrylic Painting by Anastassia Skopp

Original contemporary floral painting on cotton canvas.
90 × 90 × 2 cm.

There’s a passage from Eckhart Tolle’s "The Power of Now" that Anastassia Skopp has read many times — the kind you return to not to learn something new, but to sit with it a little longer. This time, she wrote it directly onto raw cotton, by hand, before painting anything at all.

The text came first. Everything else arrived on top of it.

Roses and branches gather into a loose circle across the surface — not planned, not symmetrical, just where they ended up. Some words remain visible at the edges. Others disappear completely beneath green leaves and red petals. The painting doesn’t try to explain the text. It simply continues over it.

The passage is about presence — about flowers untroubled by tomorrow, about a stillness that isn’t the result of figuring anything out. Whether or not this exact passage is familiar to you, the painting doesn’t ask you to know it. It only offers what’s left once words and colour share the same canvas.

This isn’t a quote on a painting. It’s closer to two ways of paying attention to the same moment, happening at once.

Materials used:

acrylic

Details:

• Acrylic painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 90 x 90 x 2cm (unframed) / 90 x 90cm (actual image size)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: Abstract and non-figurative