Self Portrait

Artwork Details​​

• Oil on canvas 

• Dimensions: 30" x 24" x 1.5"

• Year: 2026

• Series: Seeing and Being Seen 

• Original Artwork

• Unframed

• Price: $2,200 CAD 

• Shipping quoted seperately

About the Work

Self Portrait marks the beginning of Seeing and Being Seen, a series exploring the tension between perception, identity, and the experience of being looked at.

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The portrait becomes a space for examining the relationship between the self and the viewer. Rather than offering a straightforward likeness, the work considers how identity is shaped through observation, interpretation, and the distance that can exist between how we understand ourselves and how we are seen by others.

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Through the act of portraiture, the painting invites a closer consideration of what it means to look, to be looked at, and to remain partly unknowable.

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About the series

Seeing and Being Seen explores portraiture as a psychological and perceptual encounter. Across the series, the figure becomes a site of tension between presence and absence, recognition and uncertainty. The paintings examine how the act of looking can reveal something of a person while simultaneously obscuring it.

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The series asks not only what we see in another person, but what our own act of looking brings to the encounter.