Laconic Lion (2025)
Artwork Description:
Laconic Lion is an original fine art painting by Ashvin Harrison, a commanding fusion of dignity, restraint, and untamed creative force. In this striking composition, Harrison marries hyperreal charcoal technique with explosive abstraction, unveiling a lion whose silence carries more weight than any roar.
The lion, drawn with lifelike precision in charcoal, stares outward with calm, unyielding eyes. His mane, however, erupts into a storm of colour — a halo of cobalt, turquoise, crimson, and gold splatters radiating like sparks of energy in all directions. Each droplet vibrates with motion, yet his expression remains steady, meditative, and immovable: a portrait of power that does not need to be proven.
Resting upon his head are sleek golden headphones, a subtle symbol of modern focus and inner rhythm — suggesting that true strength listens more than it speaks. Dressed in a suit, complete with a name badge marked PIVOT, the lion straddles two worlds: the wild freedom of nature and the structured ambition of human society. In this juxtaposition lies the tension of our times — primal instinct balanced against reasoned restraint.
The result is a visual meditation on leadership, discipline, and quiet authority. Through the lens of Harrison’s evolving Motusrealism, Laconic Lion unites the fine detail of realism with the chaos of expressive abstraction, reminding us that true courage is not always loud, but always seen.
Size: 153 x 122 cm
Title: Laconic Lion (2025)
Medium: Coconut charcoal, acrylics, oil paints, metallic pigments
Canvas: Premium museum-grade 12oz stretched cotton canvas (Australian hardwood stretcher bars, 4cm deep)
Size: 153 x 122 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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