Abyssal Flow - Abstract Art

This is it - the painting is done, just the varnish to apply. Art and photography by Janice Gill. Colour may vary depending on your device.

Abyssal Flow began with the idea of light moving through deep water: not a beam, but a presence.

While the idea of deep water ignited the process and created the mood, there is ambiguity. A space to find your own meaning.

Something rising slowly from darkness, gathering, dissolving, and changing as it reaches the surface.

I didn’t want this painting to tell a fixed story.

It isn't a scene to decode or a symbol with one correct meaning.

For me, it sits somewhere between depth and emergence, between stillness and movement, between the weight of the unseen and the pull of light.

Painting Process

Detail of Abyssal flow showing layers and texture. Artwork by Janice Gill

The painting was built in layers, with deep blue-black passages, softened transitions and a broken flow of pale light moving through the composition.

I wanted the surface to feel atmospheric rather than descriptive, leaving space for the viewer to bring their own associations to it.

Some may see water, mist, energy, memory, or a deep form of release.

Others may simply respond to the movement, the contrast, or the mood.

That intentional openness is part of the piece.

Will it suit my interior?

Abyssal Flow adds a touch of colour and connection to the coastal environment

I see this work suiting a variety of interiors adding a calm splash of colour to minimalist interiors, a connection to the environment in coastal landscapes, or a lighter statement in darker, moody interiors.

I've shown it unframed here, but a tray frame would work very well. Black, dark blue-black, or wood frames would create a premium finish.

Of course, it can be hung unframed, as the sides are finished to match the deep, dark blue of the painting.

The original is available to purchase. It will be processed once fully dry and varnished (approx 2 weeks).

A very limited number (50) of giclee, canvas prints, at almost full size 22" x 22" are available immediately.

Abyssal Flow Details

Artist - Janice Gill

Media - Acrylic on Canvas

Size - 61cm x 61cm x 38mm (24" x 24" x 1.5")

Price, original - £2,750 unframed

print - £195

More from the Elemental Flow Series

Abyssal flow is the first in the Elemental Flow series and I'm now working on a companion piece to it. It is a larger canvas in the same colour scheme.

Whereas Abyssal Flow is born and moves within the darkest depth of water, the new piece is an uprising from those depths into atmosphere and will be full of soft mist or cloud like transitions of light and colour.

At 100 cm x 100 cm it is a statement-size piece.