Key To The World (2025)
* Artwork On Show in Miami, USA from NOV 29- DEC 9 at The Wall Art Gallery
Original Fine Art Painting by Ashvin Harrison
“He holds not just a metaphor — but the fragile balance of faith and future.”
Artwork Description:
Key to the World is an original fine art painting by Ashvin Harrison, an evocative reflection on innocence, responsibility, and the unseen forces that shape our shared destiny. In this imaginative composition, Harrison blends the intimate gaze of realism with the expansive reach of cosmic symbolism — revealing a moment where hope and power rest in the hands of the young.
A young ape, rendered in delicate charcoal realism, sits grounded yet intent, eyes lifted toward the balloon that floats above him. Tethered by a fine string, the balloon is the Earth itself — painted in luminous colour, a living sphere of oceans and continents suspended in possibility. From the string dangles a key, its lock shaped as half of a crucifix: a symbol of faith, transcendence, and the fragile link between humanity’s spiritual search and its worldly stewardship.
Surrounding the scene, vibrant splashes of ochre, green, copper, and night-sky blue erupt in Harrison’s signature expressive style. Each flick of paint feels like both stardust and storm — the boundless energy of creation scattering outward, suggesting that within chaos lies meaning, and within innocence lies extraordinary power.
This work resonates as a meditation on guardianship, spirituality, and the tenuous thread upon which our world is held. In the language of Harrison’s evolving Motusrealism, Key to the World unites the precision of lifelike detail with the liberation of abstraction, offering a vision both grounding and transcendent.
Title: Key to the World (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.
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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″).