Held Together by Light, an original abstract painting on unstretched canvas by Linda Coppens. A dense central cluster of deep burgundy, blue, black and warm orange gestures is surrounded by soft white, grey and pale pink passages, creating a sense of tension, openness and balance.
Detail of the abstract painting with expressive brushstrokes and splatters in blue, white, black, red, pink, green, and orange.
Detail of the abstract painting with expressive brushstrokes and splatters in pink, red, blue, orange, green, and yellow on a textured off-white background.
Detail of the abstract painting with thick impasto brushstrokes in white, gray, beige, black, orange, and magenta on a textured canvas.
Detail of the abstract painting on canvas featuring expressive brushstrokes in pink, orange, yellow, black, blue, and white.
Detail of the abstract painting with expressive impasto brushstrokes in black, deep red, soft pink, gray, beige, and touches of yellow and blue.
Detail with signature
The painting on the studio floor

Held Together by Light

€350.00 Sale

Size of the loose canvas: 45 x 60 cm
Acrylic and mixed media on unstretched canvas. Designed to be presented framed, in the same way as works on paper.
Signed front and back. Certificate of Authenticity
Shipped unframed.

This intimate work emerged through a process of layering, removing and responding rather than following a predetermined image. Dense passages of colour gradually gathered into a central structure, while broad areas of lighter paint were left to create space around them. The painting explores the tension between accumulation and openness, allowing the composition to settle only when the different elements reached a fragile sense of equilibrium.

Created as part of my ongoing studio practice, this work is an independent artwork that reflects the same process of layering, revision and decision-making that informs my larger paintings.