Description

The Night Watch Owl (2025)

Original Fine Art Painting by Ashvin Harrison
“She watches not the hours — but the eternal turning of the world.”

Artwork Description:

The Night Watch Owl is an original fine art painting by Ashvin Harrison, a contemplative vision of time, guardianship, and the fragile threads that bind humanity to the cosmos. In this mesmerising composition, Harrison fuses his charcoal realism with vibrant expressive colour, unveiling an owl that is both sentinel of the night and keeper of universal truth.

The barn owl, painted with paint and makeup brushes in lifelike monochrome, gazes directly at the viewer with a calm yet piercing stillness — an ancient wisdom residing in its eyes. Between its talons hangs a golden pocket watch, its hands paused at 11:11 — the symbol of alignment, awakening, and cosmic synchronicity. At its heart glows the Earth itself, reminding us that our world spins within the greater rhythm of time, watched over by unseen forces.

The owl’s wings erupt in a flood of ochre, teal, copper, and midnight splashes — paint cast outward in dynamic arcs, like sparks from a celestial fire. Each speck suggests galaxies, constellations, and the scattering of time across infinite dimensions. The colours do not confine the owl but release it — as though wisdom itself cannot be held, only witnessed in motion.

Together, the owl, the watch, and the Earth form a trinity of vision: wisdom, time, and the fragile blue planet we call home. The work speaks to cycles, guardianship, and the delicate balance between fleeting moments and eternal truths. Embodying Harrison’s evolving Motusrealism, The Night Watch Owl harmonises the precision of natural realism with the wild expression of cosmic emotion — a reminder that even in darkness, we are guided by light, time, and knowing.

Title: The Night Watch Owl (2025)
Medium: Coconut charcoal, acrylics, oil paints, metallic pigments
Canvas: Premium museum-grade 12oz stretched cotton canvas (Australian hardwood stretcher bars, 4cm deep)
Size: 122 x 91 cm (48 x 36 inches)
Technique: Charcoal brushing realism with expressive abstraction and splatter dynamics
Finish: Five layers of white gesso, sealed with archival museum-grade fixatives
Presentation: Stretched, ready to hang
Authenticity: Signed on front in art ink; hand-signed and dated on back; includes signed certificate of authenticity
Shipping: Global delivery with full insurance and premium protective packaging

Additional Artwork Information

Ashvin Harrison paints realistic artworks inspired by real life posing people and nature, photographs or imagination. Also, all artworks have a charcoal dust element to them. This painting, like most pieces, is a mixture of acrylics, acrylic medium thinners, acrylic medium flows and also mixing additives with charcoal dust paint. This completely new made up approach to create art is a large part of Ashvin’s fast growing popularity in the art world.

Please contact me if you would like to see more photos or also seek more information about this artwork. All artworks ship for free to any country and also location within. Insurance and import taxes paid for by Ashvin, making for stress free purchasing and arrival of your new painting.

If this artwork is not the one for you, please check out the Artworks in Stock Page. Contact Ashvin to discuss a custom commissioned artwork. Ashvin can also create on different size formats of rolled or ready to hang artworks. Also, Ashvin offers super sized rolled canvas artworks up to 265cm (104″).