Mother, 2023, Oil on Canvas, 100cm x 160cm
Mother
In the beginning, there was a breath, soft, eternal and from it came the Mother. She was not one woman, but the essence of all women, not one face, but the reflection of many souls. This painting, shaped as a triangle, symbolizes that sacred trinity, the womb, the heart, and the divine, from which all life emerges and to which all returns.
Mother is an origin and belonging. It is the whisper of tenderness in a world too often hardened by noise. The pinkish hues flow through the canvas like quiet rivers of love, a colour not of fragility, but of strength cloaked in gentleness. Within the layered forms of women and people, their silhouettes merge and dissolve, suggesting that motherhood is not a single body but a shared spirit, the nurturer, the giver, the silent witness of creation.
Each figure in the work is a fragment of that eternal mother, one who bears, shelters, forgives, and lets go. They rise together within the triangular frame, reaching upward yet rooted in the earth, embodying the paradox of motherhood, strength that bends, love that endures, and pain that becomes beauty.
Like the poetry of Kahlil Gibran, Mother speaks not only of one woman but of humanity itself. It reminds us that in every act of giving, there is a trace of her, in every tear, her compassion, in every silence, her presence. The triangle becomes both altar and embrace, a vessel of the feminine divine, where creation and surrender coexist.
This painting is an offering, a prayer in colour for every mother who has loved and lost, for every woman who has carried life in her hands or in her heart. It is a reminder that we are all born of her, and through her, we learn the language of mercy.