Description

Cosmic Playground (2025)

Original Fine Art by Ashvin Harrison
Life begins with wonder — and wonder begins with the stars.

Artwork Description:
Cosmic Playground is a transcendent original painting by Ashvin Harrison — a visual meditation on the meaning of life, the innocence of being, and the eternal dance between childhood and the cosmos. In this evocative piece, Harrison invites the viewer to rediscover their sense of wonder, curiosity, and cosmic connection through the simplest act: a child on a swing.

At the center of the artwork, a young child — drawn with masterful charcoal realism — swings in stillness, facing a galactic horizon. The ropes stretch upward into a surreal sky, where planets of our solar system float like mobile toys in a divine nursery. Jupiter, Saturn, Earth, and Mars become part of a celestial playground — a metaphor for our place in the vast unknown.

The sky, painted with expressive splashes of teal, deep space blues, and cosmic black, pulses with energy — a universe alive with motion, mystery, and time. Acrylics and shimmering mediums form constellations and cosmic waves, creating a sense of endless movement and spiritual resonance.

Cosmic Playground asks a timeless question: What if life is not about finding answers, but learning to swing between them? The child does not look back. Instead, they face forward into infinity — a symbol of hope, growth, and the soul’s desire to explore. In this moment, we are reminded that the meaning of life might be less about control and more about presence, awe, and the playful navigation of the unknown.

Key Features:

Title: Cosmic Playground (2025)
Medium: Coconut charcoal, acrylics, shimmer and metallic mediums
Canvas: Museum Grade 4cm Australian Hardwood Gum backed-stretched fine art 12oz canvas
Size: 48 x 36 inches (91 x 122cm)
Technique: Hand-painted using Ashvin Harrison’s signature charcoal realism with expressive cosmic splatter effects
Finish: Five layers of white gesso; sealed with archival-quality fixatives
Presentation: Stretched and ready to hang
Authenticity: Signed on the front in art ink; signed and dated on the back; includes a hand-signed certificate of authenticity
Shipping: Shipped worldwide with full insurance and premium protective packaging

Whether placed in a meditation space, gallery, or a home filled with thought and imagination, Cosmic Playground is a poetic reminder that we are not separate from the universe — we are part of its beautiful, infinite swing.

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″).