Description

Nautical Nomad Tree (2025)

Original Fine Art Painting by Ashvin Harrison

Artwork Description:

Nautical Nomad Tree is an original fine art painting by Ashvin Harrison, commissioned by a private collector on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. This work is a contemplative meditation on journey, connection, and the quiet courage it takes to step beyond the familiar and move toward the unknown.

At the heart of the composition stands a solitary tree, rendered in lifelike charcoal realism. Its trunk is grounded, weathered, and enduring — a symbol of stability, memory, and origin. From this solid foundation, the canopy erupts outward in an expansive cloud of blue and turquoise splashes, layered with fine droplets and gestural movement. The colours evoke ocean spray, sky, and shifting tides, transforming the tree into a living map of motion and possibility.

Carved into the base of the trunk is an open doorway. Beyond it, a tranquil seascape unfolds: two figures sit side by side at the water’s edge, facing a vast horizon where sea meets sky. This intimate vignette represents companionship, trust, and shared exploration — the idea that while each journey is personal, it is often made meaningful through connection. The ocean beyond them suggests freedom, travel, and the pull of distant places, while the doorway itself becomes a threshold between what is known and what lies ahead.

The layered splashes across the canopy create depth and rhythm, some drifting like mist, others landing with deliberate weight. These marks reflect Harrison’s evolving Motusrealism practice, where realism anchors the viewer while expressive abstraction gives form to emotion, movement, and inner narrative. The tree is not merely a subject, but a vessel — holding stories of departure, return, and the timeless desire to wander.

Nautical Nomad Tree speaks to those drawn to the sea, to movement, and to lives shaped by curiosity and courage. It is a reminder that no matter how far one travels, growth is rooted in where we begin, and that the most meaningful journeys often start quietly, through a single open door.

Details:

Title: Nautical Nomad Tree (2025)
Artist: Ashvin Harrison
Medium: Coconut charcoal powder, acrylics, oil paints, shimmer acrylic and sparkle medium on canvas
Canvas: Premium museum-grade stretched cotton canvas
Size: 122 x 91 cm (36 x 48 inches)
Technique: Charcoal realism with layered expressive splashes and dynamic motion
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
Commission: Private commission for a collector on the Sunshine Coast, Australia
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″).