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Grace Of Gravity (2026)

Original Fine Art Painting by Ashvin Harrison

Artwork Description:

Grace of Gravity is an original fine art painting by Ashvin Harrison, exploring self-love, maturity, and the quiet power that emerges when a woman fully accepts her own presence. This work reflects the moment where freedom is no longer sought externally, but felt internally — grounded, embodied, and deeply alive.

At the centre of the composition is a female figure, inspired by a Sunshine Coast, Australian woman whom posed at age 49. Her beautiful figure rendered in refined coconut charcoal realism. Her body is powerful yet relaxed, her posture open, her head tilted upward in a gesture of surrender rather than effort. There is no tension in the form — only balance. Harrison captures the natural weight of the body with sensitivity and honesty, allowing gravity itself to become part of the narrative rather than something to resist.

From her hair erupts a sweeping constellation of colour — blues, golds, warm ambers, and soft pastels — moving outward in layered arcs and splashes. Embedded within this energy are celestial forms, moon-like orbs drifting through the motion, symbolising time, cycles, and the phases of becoming. The colour is not chaotic; it is rhythmic. It feels measured, intentional, and aligned, echoing the harmony between inner freedom and external reality.

Gold shimmer acrylic and subtle sparkle medium are woven through the abstraction, catching light as the viewer moves. These elements introduce a sense of elevation and reverence, suggesting that self-acceptance is not static — it glows, shifts, and deepens over time. The shimmer does not overpower the figure; instead, it honours her, reinforcing the idea that beauty matures rather than fades.

Grace of Gravity speaks to the balance between lightness and weight, freedom and grounding, desire and peace. Through his evolving Motusrealism practice, Harrison merges anatomical realism with expressive abstraction, allowing emotion and meaning to be felt rather than explained. This work invites the viewer to reconsider gravity not as limitation, but as grace — the force that allows us to belong fully within ourselves.

Details:

Title: Grace of Gravity (2025)
Artist: Ashvin Harrison
Medium: Coconut charcoal powder, acrylics, oil paints, gold shimmer acrylic, and sparkle medium on canvas
Canvas: Premium museum-grade stretched cotton canvas
Size: 76 x 101 cm (30 x 40 inches)
Technique: Charcoal realism with expressive abstraction and layered splatter dynamics
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″).