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Artistic Frank An online gallery set to display portrait artworks and general paintings for booking and purchase

22/05/2026

" If you haven't got it, you can't show it. If you have got it, you can't hide it"
- Zola Neale Hurston

"Revenant"Overtime i kept sorting out titles that i felt would be best suited for the intended description of this paint...
16/05/2026

"Revenant"
Overtime i kept sorting out titles that i felt would be best suited for the intended description of this painting and i've come to settle with Revenant.....

Revenant portrays what it means to keep existing after feeling that parts of yourself have been stripped away, it's not about victory in a literal sense, but about the version of a person that returns after disappointments, pressure, betrayal or emotional exhaustion has changed them completely.

The depicts a lady adorned with a garment barely hanging onto her, standing in an environment of ruins which also features ravens, not just to represent creatures of the dark, but symbols of memory and judgement. The skull and scattered wild flowers speak to that contrast between decay and continuation, an idea of growth fueled from pain...

To me Revenant represents the human tendency to come back altered, not healed perfectly, not untouched. But changed, more aware, and carrying the weight of truths that cannot be ignored.

Oil painting

Muse: .rhoda

Dark and Beautiful ❤️ Oil painting
17/04/2026

Dark and Beautiful ❤️
Oil painting

08/04/2026

Several weeks later and this is it, signed out on this one.....I think this is the longest i've spent on a painting, it took a month, although I wasn't steady on it for the first two weeks, time really does fly......quite a painting too i must say.
Anyways, off to start a new painting, something that might seem disturbing.......i think 🤔
And the next post on this one will carry it's title and the meaning behind the painting
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Title: "Overwhelmed"Medium: oil painting At first glance the painting portrays a state of emotional exhaustion, with a l...
01/04/2026

Title: "Overwhelmed"
Medium: oil painting

At first glance the painting portrays a state of emotional exhaustion, with a lot more going on.
It's a familiar moment we experience as humans, a period of burnout, after trying to be strong for too long, carrying expectations, after pretending "I'm good" one too many times, just allowing oneself a pause, not because things are solved but because the body and mind can't keep pretending they're fine. The posture isn't dramatic, it's familiar. Anyone who has worked hard, struggled or felt unseen knows this position.

The owls and the cat hovering around the human subject are watchful presences representing the tension between rest and the thoughts that often haunt us. They can be read as awareness or watchful pressures that follow people through life, expectations from family, friends, society, fiends and even unseen critics. Some are close, some distant, but all watching, representing that feeling of being observed, measured or expected to be something more, even in your moment of rest.

The environment suggests worn down by time or experience, much like how we go through setbacks, loss, disappointment or responsibility too early in life. There's still structure, still beauty but its fragile

This paintwork is a representation of that conscious pause under pressure
Not falling apart, Just.....tired

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