"Abalone Heart"
Artist Jen Haefeli, 2023
Acrylic, Watercolor, Metallic Watercolor, Soap & Ink
30" x 30" x 2.25" Museum-grade Canvas Panel

The ocean delivers gifts of beauty in special ways. This piece is intended to invoke thoughts of unexpected tenderness despite the tumbling, rustling, and tossing in the currents. After being carefully sheltered within a jagged, stone-like exterior, the gentle abalone interior holds a surprising hue. The tender pearlescence displays a myriad of colorful hues, providing proof that beauty can be carefully created and then surrendered from within the center of even the harshest of elements. Abalone Heart reminds us that we are resilient. We will render the product of our worth despite the storms we experience.