This is what love looked like – ‘What We Carry’ Collection

Mixed media on canvas, oil, acrylic, gold leaf

Framed in bare ayous wood, L shaped

63 x 53 x 4 cm.  (20.8″ x 24.8″ x 1.6″)

This piece holds the weight of memory—raw, unfiltered, and unpretty. Figures emerge in a confined, shifting space, each one distorted but deeply expressive. Their presence feels haunted, tender, and unresolved, as if love was once here but has changed shape.

Painted through layers of emotion, This Is What Love Looked Like explores the darker, often unspoken sides of connection: control, longing, loss, and resilience. Gold accents suggest something once cherished, now fractured.

It’s not a romantic version of love—but an honest one, shaped by experience.