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(Foundations series, 2025)
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Materials: Acrylic paint
Size: 17 × 21 inches
Background: Off-white / beige
Original: Available
Availability: Original and prints available
How Many Metres? is a text-led, magazine-style acrylic painting that playfully explores reassurance, affection, and distance. Combining clean, hand-painted typography with a whimsical cosmic illustration, the work balances humour with emotional sincerity.
How Many Metres? is composed in a vintage magazine–inspired layout, pairing carefully hand-painted text with a framed illustrative scene set against an off-white background. The full text — How Many Metres to the Moon and Back? — gently interrogates a familiar phrase of affection, reframing it through curiosity and humour.
The accompanying illustration depicts a floating, playful cosmos filled with planets and drifting objects, many rendered with their own expressive faces. The exaggerated expressions introduce warmth and personality, softening the vastness of space into something intimate and approachable. The piece reflects a shared moment between the artist and her girlfriend, where reassurance becomes both loving and lightly absurd.
(Foundations series, 2025)
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Materials: Acrylic paint
Size: 17 × 21 inches
Background: Off-white / beige
Original: Available
Availability: Original and prints available
How Many Metres? is a text-led, magazine-style acrylic painting that playfully explores reassurance, affection, and distance. Combining clean, hand-painted typography with a whimsical cosmic illustration, the work balances humour with emotional sincerity.
How Many Metres? is composed in a vintage magazine–inspired layout, pairing carefully hand-painted text with a framed illustrative scene set against an off-white background. The full text — How Many Metres to the Moon and Back? — gently interrogates a familiar phrase of affection, reframing it through curiosity and humour.
The accompanying illustration depicts a floating, playful cosmos filled with planets and drifting objects, many rendered with their own expressive faces. The exaggerated expressions introduce warmth and personality, softening the vastness of space into something intimate and approachable. The piece reflects a shared moment between the artist and her girlfriend, where reassurance becomes both loving and lightly absurd.