Goddess Rising

GODDESS RISING Acrylic on Canvas | 48" × 72" | 2022

She is holding up the world. She has always been holding up the world.

Goddess Rising is a monumental work — in scale, in ambition, in the weight of what it is trying to say and the confidence with which it says it. A winged female figure rises from a ground of deep red, arms raised above her head supporting a sphere of deep blue water — the earth, the moon, a world that needs holding — while around her the cosmos explodes outward in rays of rainbow light, planets orbiting in the dark, Jupiter and Saturn and smaller worlds suspended in the black of space that is simultaneously vast and completely intimate.

The figure is painted with the warm, luminous quality that the best figurative painting achieves when it stops being careful — the body rendered in deep ochre and orange, outlined in neon pink that vibrates against the dark, the wings spreading in white that catches every colour around it and gives it back transformed. She is not ascending. She is already there. The rising is complete. What we are seeing is the aftermath of an arrival.

The rays of light that burst from behind her are painted in every colour simultaneously — the full spectrum, the complete signal, the visual equivalent of every frequency at once. Against the black of deep space they are almost unbearably joyful. The planets orbit. The water holds. The goddess stands.

This is a painting about female power at its most cosmic and its most grounded simultaneously — the figure rooted on her red earth, connected to the sky above, holding the world between her raised hands with the ease of someone for whom this has always been the natural order of things.

At 48×72 Goddess Rising is one of the most monumental works in the collection. A painting that changes every room it enters and every person who stands in front of it long enough.

📦 Shipping & Details

• 48" × 72" original acrylic on canvas
• Signed and dated 2022
• Due to the exceptional scale of this work please contact us before purchasing to discuss shipping, stretching and installation
• Certificate of authenticity included

One original. No reproductions. She has always been holding up the world.