Archival pen on 425gsm Saunders Waterford paper
A2 Portrait — 42 × 59.4 cm / 16.5 × 23.4 inches
Original artwork — one of one
This piece was originally given another title last week, during a period where I was feeling slightly under the weather and honestly not very connected to myself or the work in the way I normally try to be. Looking back at it now, the title no longer felt truthful to the drawing or the emotions sitting inside it. The piece itself still feels deeply important to me, but the name carried a feeling of unrest that I couldn’t settle with, so I decided to change it.
Everything the Light Couldn’t Hold feels closer to what I was trying to say without fully understanding it at the time.
An endless current of colour folds and loops across the surface like the final moments of daylight stretching themselves impossibly thin before disappearing into night. Beneath the movement lies something tender and fragile — a quiet attempt to hold together emotions, memories, and thoughts that arrive faster than they can be understood.
Created entirely in archival pen on Saunders Waterford paper, the drawing became a meditation on overwhelm, love, and the strange beauty that can exist inside emotional exhaustion. Thousands of flowing lines drift and collide like racing thoughts or fragments of memory, building into rhythms that feel both euphoric and unsteady at the same time.
The yellow skies emerging throughout the composition carry the warmth of twilight, but also a sense of psychological heat — as though the light itself is struggling to contain everything being placed upon it. What first appears vibrant slowly reveals itself as deeply vulnerable: a portrait of someone trying to remain soft and open-hearted while the world continues to move too quickly around them.
There is anxiety within the work, but also devotion. The kind of love that lingers long after it should rest. The kind that keeps searching for beauty even while overwhelmed by the noise of being alive.
Both meditative and emotionally charged, the drawing exists somewhere between comfort and collapse — a space where repetition becomes a form of holding on.
🌊 Shipped within 14 days
🖼️ Unframed — images show an example of how the artwork could look framed
📸 Some images are photographed at an angle to highlight surface detail
Postage & Packaging 📦
UK: £6 🇬🇧
Europe: £8 🇪🇺
Rest of World: £12 🌍
Archival pen on 425gsm Saunders Waterford paper
A2 Portrait — 42 × 59.4 cm / 16.5 × 23.4 inches
Original artwork — one of one
This piece was originally given another title last week, during a period where I was feeling slightly under the weather and honestly not very connected to myself or the work in the way I normally try to be. Looking back at it now, the title no longer felt truthful to the drawing or the emotions sitting inside it. The piece itself still feels deeply important to me, but the name carried a feeling of unrest that I couldn’t settle with, so I decided to change it.
Everything the Light Couldn’t Hold feels closer to what I was trying to say without fully understanding it at the time.
An endless current of colour folds and loops across the surface like the final moments of daylight stretching themselves impossibly thin before disappearing into night. Beneath the movement lies something tender and fragile — a quiet attempt to hold together emotions, memories, and thoughts that arrive faster than they can be understood.
Created entirely in archival pen on Saunders Waterford paper, the drawing became a meditation on overwhelm, love, and the strange beauty that can exist inside emotional exhaustion. Thousands of flowing lines drift and collide like racing thoughts or fragments of memory, building into rhythms that feel both euphoric and unsteady at the same time.
The yellow skies emerging throughout the composition carry the warmth of twilight, but also a sense of psychological heat — as though the light itself is struggling to contain everything being placed upon it. What first appears vibrant slowly reveals itself as deeply vulnerable: a portrait of someone trying to remain soft and open-hearted while the world continues to move too quickly around them.
There is anxiety within the work, but also devotion. The kind of love that lingers long after it should rest. The kind that keeps searching for beauty even while overwhelmed by the noise of being alive.
Both meditative and emotionally charged, the drawing exists somewhere between comfort and collapse — a space where repetition becomes a form of holding on.
🌊 Shipped within 14 days
🖼️ Unframed — images show an example of how the artwork could look framed
📸 Some images are photographed at an angle to highlight surface detail
Postage & Packaging 📦
UK: £6 🇬🇧
Europe: £8 🇪🇺
Rest of World: £12 🌍