Have Your Cake

HAVE YOUR CAKE Acrylic on Canvas | 42" × 58"

It was my 50th birthday. I piped the paint on like icing.

This is not a painting of a perfect cake. This is a painting of a cake that has lived — that has leaned into the table, shed its layers, worn its roses with the casual confidence of something that was never going to be careful. Red roses stud the thick white frosting like declarations. The layers beneath are visible — pink, green, lavender — collapsing into each other with the magnificent inevitability of a very good party reaching its natural conclusion.

And the background isn't background at all. It is everything — hot pink, black, yellow, the gestural, explosive energy of a canvas that was painted on a milestone birthday by someone who had absolutely nothing left to prove and everything left to celebrate.

Have Your Cake is thick. Tactile. The paint is piped and sculpted directly onto the surface — roses built up in impasto, frosting applied with the generosity of someone who has stopped measuring. Press your eye close and it becomes almost edible. Step back and it becomes something else entirely — a self-portrait in sugar and paint, a declaration, a very specific kind of joy.

The title is only half the saying. The other half is the painting.

✨ Part of the Delicacies Series

The Delicacies Series elevated. The most personal work in the collection.

📦 Shipping & Details

• 42" × 58" original acrylic on canvas
• Thick body impasto paint — significant three-dimensional surface texture
• Please contact us before purchasing to discuss specialist shipping options for the textured surface
• Certificate of authenticity included

One original. No reproductions. Have it.