'Peaceful Optimist - Ink' has been released as a limited edition 1 - 75. This artwork is a reproduction of my original mixed media artwork. This exclusive print comes with a signed certificate of authenticity.
Our canvases are made using the latest printing technology, they are printed on a premium artist-grade canvas and stretched onto a wood frame. They’re fitted with hanging fixtures, ready to hang on your wall. Each canvas is also carefully packaged with bubble wrap and a custom-made shipping box.
This print is framed in a Tasmanian Oak floating Frame. These frames are handmade in Australia.
Canvas measurements: 30cm x 30cm x 3cm / 11.8" x 11.8" x 1.18"
Tasmanian Oak framed measurements: 33cm x 33cm x 5.5cm / 13" x 13" x 2.2"
* You can Pair this with 'The Peaceful Optimist- Ink' and 'The Peaceful Optimist- Sepia'
* 2 weeks required for production after purchase.
* This artwork is shipped directly from our printer/framer and the certificate of authenticity is shipped from our studio.
If you would like a bigger or smaller size I can do another version to your size specifications as a commission, please request contact us.
At the beginning of 2019 I was going through a really sad time, I was beginning to lose hope in the world and hence becoming easily annoyed and angry.
I decided I didn’t want to be this way, so I did what I always do and that is to start drawing what I wanted life to look like. The reoccurring theme seemed to be love and optimism. So I kept drawing hearts, I think I must of drawn hundreds, all over magazines and newspapers they kept developing and growing and I began to really start loving them and the process. I loved the effect of the background newsprint, but sometimes the words were wrong.
So I research words of positivity and hope. I went through all the google searches and just kept adding to the list. I stopped watching and reading the news, I decided to create my own newspaper with these words. I wanted my heart to go onto words of love and hope. So I printed collages of these great words and started painting my multi-coloured hearts on top.
I noticed that people started smiling at me in the street and I wondered why, then I realised it was because I was walking round smiling, my mode had changed.
More people started contacting me and wanting paintings. I posted the hearts on my Instagram and I got so many orders for these hearts. I call them ‘The Optimist’ because that is was what I had become.