Description

Agate Outback Tree (2026)

Original Fine Art Painting by Ashvin Harrison

Artwork Description:

Agate Outback Tree is an original fine art painting by Ashvin Harrison, born from a concept exploring place, identity, and the quiet poetry of the Australian landscape. This work reflects on belonging, journey, and the deep connection between land and spirit — where memory, movement, and nature converge.

At the centre of the composition stands a powerful tree, its trunk rendered in meticulous charcoal realism. Solid, ancient, and grounded, the tree represents endurance and continuity — a silent witness to time. From its branches bursts a vast canopy of expressive colour: fiery reds, ambers, golds, and earthy greens collide in layered splashes, evoking agate stone, mineral richness, and the raw energy of the Australian outback. Each droplet, drill spun circles, leaf splatters and strokes feel alive, as if the land itself is breathing outward from the tree.

Carved into the trunk is an arched doorway, opening into a glowing outback road at dusk. Within this passage stands a lone kangaroo, paused on the road beneath a warm sunset sky. This subtle but powerful detail anchors the work in Australia — not as spectacle, but as essence. The kangaroo becomes a symbol of instinct, movement, and quiet resilience, standing at the threshold between the known and the unknown, between past and future.

The road stretches forward through the arch, inviting contemplation of life’s journeys — the paths we choose, the pauses we take, and the moments of stillness that define us as much as motion. The doorway itself acts as a portal, suggesting that meaning is often found not in escape, but in deeper presence within the land we call home.

Through his evolving Motusrealism practice, Harrison unites lifelike realism with expressive abstraction, allowing emotion and narrative to emerge without being over-explained. Agate Outback Tree is both grounding and expansive — a meditation on Australia’s spirit, the strength of nature, and the quiet power of standing still at the right moment.

Details:

Title: Agate Outback Tree (2026)
Artist: Ashvin Harrison
Medium: Coconut charcoal powder, acrylics, oil paints, shimmer acrylic and sparkle medium on canvas
Canvas: Premium museum-grade stretched cotton canvas
Size: 122 x 91 cm (36 x 48 inches)
Technique: Charcoal realism with layered expressive splashes and dynamic motion
Finish: Multi-layered gesso base, sealed with archival museum-grade fixatives
Presentation: Stretched canvas, ready to hang
Authenticity: Signed on the front; hand-signed and dated on the reverse; includes signed certificate of authenticity
Shipping: Professionally packaged with full insurance for secure delivery

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.

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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″).