Hand Signals

HAND SIGNALS Acrylic & Watercolour Collage on Canvas | 30" × 40"

Everything you need to say. Right there on the wall.

Six hands. Six gestures. Each one rendered in meticulous graphite-toned watercolour and collaged onto a ground of warm dusty rose — cut out, placed, arranged with the careful consideration of someone who understands that how you say something is as important as what you're saying. OK. Peace. I love you. The point. The pinch. And one that needs no explanation whatsoever.

Hand Signals is the painting that makes everyone in the room smile — and then look more carefully — and then smile again at what they find. There is humour here, and craft, and a quietly subversive intelligence that hides itself in plain sight. The hands are painted with genuine anatomical care — the kind of observational drawing that takes years to develop — then cut from their context and given new meaning by their arrangement and their company.

The rose ground is perfectly chosen — warm, a little retro, the colour of something between a telegram and a vintage poster. Against it, the hands float like a vocabulary lesson for people who already know all the words.

This is the kind of work that works in a home office, a creative studio, a living room that takes its art seriously but not too seriously. The kind of painting that people notice and remember and talk about.

📦 Shipping & Details

• 30" × 40" original on canvas
• Acrylic and watercolour collage
• Signed original
• Ships stretched on timber stretcher bars — ready to hang
• Certificate of authenticity included

One original. No reproductions. Everything you need to say.