Ian Whaley

Tecnica: Oil on canvas and resin coat on top

Anno: 2024

Dimensione:  30cm x15cm

Descrizione: In this hauntingly evocative painting, a lone figure stands engulfed by a swarm of faceless silhouettes and reaching hands, rendered in rich fuchsia and deep magenta tones. The crowd doesn’t just surround him—they emerge from him, like fragments of self long buried. Each hand, each gaze, is a whisper of the emotions we suppress: desire, fear, rage, longing. The title, Shades, speaks not of color alone, but of the hidden selves we carry—those shadowed truths that surface when silence breaks. It’s a confrontation with the intimate chaos we often keep veiled.