open your heart Pastels

Title: Open Your Heart
Size: 36 x 36 inches

Medium: Acrylic with stone-finish plaster on stretched canvas (ready to hang)

Series: Roof Series

Description:
Open Your Heart is a textured meditation on emotion and memory, rendered through the lens of abstract architecture. As part of the artist’s Roof Series, this piece features a dreamlike cluster of rooftop homes—minimally defined yet deeply expressive. The color palette is bold and moody, with layers of deep red, maroon, grey, black, white, and peach that interact across the surface in dynamic contrast.

Heavy textures—created using stone-finish plaster—lend the canvas a tactile depth, mimicking the weathered surfaces of old walls and sunbaked roofs. The composition blends simplicity with complexity: white and grey structures suggest rural homes, while bold black chimney-like forms add vertical rhythm.

Broad brushstrokes, confident shapes, and generous use of negative space allow the architecture to breathe. The warmth of red and maroon evokes emotional openness, while the interplay of light and shadow captures a timeless stillness.

Open Your Heart invites viewers to pause and reflect—not only on physical places but on inner landscapes. It is a visual expression of vulnerability, structure, and the beauty found in both.