Ashvin Harrison Australian, b. 1984
182.9 x 121.9 cm
Available for presale. Please note: this artwork will be exhibited during Ashvin Harrison’s solo show (Nov 29–Dec 7) and can be collected or shipped after the exhibition.
Wings of the Whisperer is an original fine art painting by Ashvin Harrison, a creative exploration of serenity, and the hidden forces of renewal. In this radiant portrait, Harrison weaves hyperreal charcoal with explosive abstraction, unveiling a vision of grace balanced between stillness and motion.
The woman, painted in lifelike charcoal realism, tilts her head upward with eyes closed, immersed in quiet surrender. Her face and form carry the calm of meditation — an inner world untouched by noise or distraction. From her hair bursts a storm of radiant golden splashes, a torrent of metallic light that arcs across the canvas like the flow of energy itself. Each flicker of gold seems to pulse with life, cascading outward in a rhythm both chaotic and divine.
Among this celestial cascade rests a monarch butterfly, its wings unfurled as if whispering unseen truths into the golden current. The butterfly — ancient emblem of transformation, fragility, and renewal — hovers as a subtle guardian, reminding us that growth arrives gently, like wings brushing against silence.
The portrait becomes a vision of contrast: calm flesh against blazing motion, silence against song, transience against eternity. Expressed through Harrison’s evolving practice of Motusrealism, Wings of the Whisperer bridges the fine detail of realism with the free release of abstraction, offering a meditation on listening inwardly to the quiet forces that shape transformation.