Tide Within

Tide Within is a striking large-scale painting that fuses portraiture with fluid abstraction. The face of a woman, rendered in mesmerizing detail, emerges from and is simultaneously submerged into the sea. Waves crash across her features, partially obscuring her eyes, forehead, and cheek — as if memory, emotion, or identity itself were being dissolved or reformed by water.

The work’s tactile realism invites the viewer closer, but the conceptual ambiguity keeps them suspended. Is this a moment of drowning or transcendence? Is she becoming part of the ocean, or resisting it? The artist masterfully uses texture, transparency, and rhythm to transform the water into a psychic space — one that feels at once violent, beautiful, and necessary.

This piece is ideal for collectors of emotionally charged contemporary realism, conceptual portraiture, or works exploring identity, transformation, and the sublime. It bridges surrealism and environmental metaphor with poetic tension.

• Technique: Oil on Canvas

• Style: Hyperrealism meets Surrealism

• Medium: Oil Painting

• Color Palette: Oceanic Greens, Deep Teals, Monochrome Flesh Tones, Foamy Whites