Ian Whaley

Tecnica: Oil on canvas on wood panel

Anno: 2024

Dimensione: : 39cm x 58.5cm

Descrizione:

Two austere figures stand side by side, their gazes locked onto the viewer with unsettling clarity. They do not blink. They do not move. Yet their presence lunges—silent and sudden—at anyone who dares pass.

From the center of each forehead, a thin stream of crimson bleeds outward, not violently, but endlessly. The blood doesn’t drip—it flows, becoming part of the color that surrounds them. Reds melt into bruised purples, into smoky blues, into shadows that pulse with quiet menace.

Their skin is pale, almost spectral, and the veins beneath shimmer with shifting hues. The background is alive with motion, but they remain still—anchored in their stare, as if they see through you, or into you.

This is not a portrait. It’s a confrontation. A moment where the canvas watches back.