Monarch Rising (2025)
Original Fine Art Painting by Ashvin Harrison
“She blooms through the Miami moment”
Artwork Description:
Monarch Rising is an original fine art painting by Ashvin Harrison — a profound celebration of renewal, beauty, and emotional evolution. Created for exhibition at the Art Miami Fair during Art Basel 2025 with The Wall Art Gallery, this piece stands as one of three feature works representing Harrison’s fusion of realism, emotion, and expressive abstraction.
At the centre of the composition, a nude female figure rises in luminous charcoal realism, her head tilted upward in surrender to the unseen. Her posture evokes release — the moment when strength and softness coexist as one. Harrison’s charcoal brushing technique renders her with anatomical precision and soulful presence, bridging realism and transcendence.
From her crown erupts a breathtaking storm of motion — golden, blue, and peach splashes interwoven with hand-painted flowers, forming an atmosphere of wild beauty and transformation. Butterflies drift upward from her chest and shoulders, their wings ablaze in monarch orange and gold. They symbolise metamorphosis, freedom, and the fragile persistence of life… to live in the Miami moment.
The upper explosion of movement becomes both hair and cosmos — a halo of thoughts, emotions, and memory blooming outward into infinity. Monarch Rising captures the essence of Harrison’s evolving Motusrealism — a dance between structure and spontaneity, form and spirit. It is an ode to self-awakening, depicting the inner unfolding that follows release, acceptance, and renewal.
Title: Monarch Rising (2025)
Medium: Coconut charcoal, acrylics, oil paints, metallic pigments, sparkle medium
Canvas: Premium museum-grade 12oz stretched cotton canvas (Australian hardwood stretcher bars, 4cm deep)
Size: 61 x 91 cm (24 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: Professionally 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″).