Description

Lion Of The Liquid Labyrinth (2025)

Artwork Description:

Lion of the Liquid Labyrinth is an original fine art painting by Ashvin Harrison, created in 2025 as a commissioned work inspired by an earlier piece and expanded into a more immersive exploration of consciousness, power, and modern identity. Monumental in scale and presence, the artwork examines the intersection between instinct and intellect, silence and signal, order and chaos.

At the centre of the composition, a lion is rendered in meticulous charcoal realism. Calm, direct, and unwavering, his gaze holds a quiet authority — strength without aggression, leadership without spectacle. Resting over his ears are golden headphones, symbolising selective listening, inner focus, and the conscious choice of what influences the mind.

From the lion’s mane erupts a vast, liquid field of motion. Layers of blue, teal, midnight tones, and deep shadow surge outward in expressive splashes and fine energetic lines, forming a labyrinth of thought and emotion. Flecks of gold shimmer within the abstraction, catching the light and shifting as the viewer moves, reinforcing the idea that perception itself is fluid.

The tailored suit introduces a subtle human element, referencing civilisation, systems, and the structures placed upon instinct. A delicate butterfly appears quietly within the composition, offering contrast — transformation alongside power, fragility beside control, evolution beside tradition.

This work speaks to the modern condition: navigating noise, information overload, and external influence while attempting to remain centred, grounded, and authentic. Through Harrison’s Motusrealism language, realism anchors the subject while abstraction reveals the unseen forces that shape thought, identity, and behaviour.

Lion of the Liquid Labyrinth is both a portrait and a psychological landscape — an invitation to reflect on leadership, self-mastery, and the courage to listen inward when the world grows loud.

Title: Lion of the Liquid Labyrinth (2025)
Medium: Coconut charcoal powder, acrylics, oil paints, shimmer gold acrylic, sparkle medium
Canvas: Premium museum-grade cotton canvas
Size: 183 x 153 cm (72 x 60 inches)
Technique: Motusrealism- Hyperreal charcoal portraiture combined with expressive abstraction and layered splatter dynamics
Finish: Sealed with archival museum-grade fixatives
Presentation: Rolled canvas
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 professional 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.

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″).