Description

Butterflies in The Universe (2026)

Original Fine Art Painting by Ashvin Harrison

Artwork Description:

There are moments when music feels larger than sound itself. Moments when a melody unlocks memories, emotions, dreams, and possibilities that words can never fully explain. Butterflies In The Universe explores that feeling — the moment where music becomes transformation.

Inspired by a model muse from the Gold Coast, Australia, the artwork portrays a figure completely immersed in sound, her eyes closed as though disconnected from the physical world and transported somewhere far beyond it. The headphones become a gateway rather than an object, opening into an explosion of colour, movement, energy, and life.

Within the flowing abstract universe surrounding her are butterflies painted in the colours of the planets in the solar system. Each butterfly represents a different celestial influence, with one particularly symbolic butterfly carrying the continents of Earth across its wings. Together they transform the composition into a visual metaphor for human experience itself — fragile, beautiful, constantly changing, yet connected to something infinitely larger.

The butterflies symbolise transformation and personal growth, while the cosmic colour palette suggests the vastness of imagination, creativity, and consciousness. The artwork invites viewers to consider how music, art, memory, and emotion can carry us beyond ordinary existence, allowing us to briefly experience something universal.

Executed in Ashvin Harrison’s signature Motusrealism style, the highly detailed monochromatic figure provides a calm centre to the composition, while thousands of energetic splashes, lines, and layered colours create a sense of movement that appears to flow endlessly beyond the canvas. The contrast between realism and abstraction creates the impression that the figure is simultaneously grounded and weightless, existing between reality and imagination.

Adding further depth, the artwork incorporates shimmering gold acrylic highlights and reflective diamond sparkle medium. These elements interact with changing light throughout the day, creating subtle shifts in colour and luminosity that cannot be fully captured in photography. As viewers move around the artwork, new reflections emerge, enhancing the sensation that the butterflies and universe are alive with motion.

Butterflies In The Universe is ultimately a celebration of imagination, transformation, music, and wonder. It reminds us that although we may feel small within the vastness of existence, we each carry entire universes within our own minds.

Details:

Title: Butterflies In The Universe (2026)
Artist: Ashvin Harrison
Medium: Coconut charcoal powder, acrylic, oil, shimmer gold acrylic, and diamond sparkle medium on canvas
Size: 48 x 36 inches (122 x 91 cm)
Canvas: Museum-grade stretched canvas on 1.5 inch (4 cm) hardwood timber frame
Style: Contemporary realism, abstract expressionism, figurative fine art, Motusrealism
Finish: Archival protective coating with reflective shimmer and sparkle elements
Features: Solar system-inspired butterflies, including an Earth butterfly with hand-painted continental details
Authenticity: Signed on the front and accompanied by certificate of authenticity
Shipping: Professionally packaged and shipped worldwide with full insurance

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″).