ORIGINAL ART
Paintings
MASCARADE
Shattered
£150.00
The fragmented self, pieced together from memory, pain and joy. Transformation rather than reconstruction, the strength found in reassembly and the beauty of creating a new self from scratch.
Blue Obsidian
£130.00
This painting is a cry. A spell. A portrait of the search. It is about the distance between who I am and who I once was. It is about the silence that follows pain and the magic that remains despite it.
Black girl blush
£130.00
The moment of trying to belong, the longing to be seen and the fear of being too different. It is about the quiet negotiations we make with ourselves. The ways we try to soften our edges. The ways we try to mimic what was never meant for us.
The Mask – First Layer
£106.00
This first mask was not crafted from truth. It was assembled from observation and longing. A wolf in sheep’s clothing and a lion dressed as a wolf. It was confusing and self-deceptive. I was trying to belong by becoming something else.
Part Self
£130.00
Part Self explores the subtle masks I adorn each day to step into the world These adornments are not superficial. They are armour, ritual and performance. Part Self is my attempt to hold that tension. To honour both the mask and the unmasking.
DARK CORNERS
Calla Lillies
£180.00
The white Calla Lily stands out starkly against it, looking a little sad and trapped on one side, but also strong and grounded in the centre.
For me, this painting is about finding peace in the present moment. That sense of balance is what gives me the strength to face whatever’s ahead.
Sonder
£180.00
This piece began in a quiet corner a symbol of isolation and a portal. A place where difference no longer felt like separation, but invitation. Each unique face, each unfamiliar gait, became a chance to expand my worldview. To soften my judgments. To remember that being human is a shared experience, even when it looks wildly different from the outside.
Snake & Poppy
£180.00
The emotional aftermath of isolation a time when external noise faded and I was left with myself. In that silence, a love for myself emerged and people and energies began to appear that mirrored that healing. Snake and Poppy is a visual echo of that experience: the moment when self-acceptance invites connection.
Mahogany Haze
£350.00
Some seasons call for connection and others ask us to go inward. To sit in the quiet. To listen to the parts of ourselves that only speak when everything else goes still.
Calla Lillies II
£430.00
Perched high on a mantle, the scene is dense with unlit candles objects that once held purpose, now resting as quiet ornaments. They speak to stillness, to the spaces we decorate when we’re trying to hold things together.
Esther Akello 