- Karin Giannini
- Where Wild Things Rest
- Oil on Gallery Wrapped Canvas
- 20 x 20 in (50.8 x 50.8 cm)
- Inv: 2025-015
- $500
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Available
In this tender oil painting, a woman sits with wind swept hair among the sanctuary of a fawn whose rests against her shoulder, and the playful flight of bees seeking nectar. The fawn finds solace in her presence. The woman pauses in a moment of profound stillness where wildness and solace coexist. Behind them, delicate coral blooms reach upward, visited by bees that hum through this quiet refuge.
The piece explores the sacred spaces we create for rest. Both for ourselves and for the untamed creatures who share our world. It asks: Where do wild things go when they need peace? The answer emerges in the woman's protective presence. In the soft meeting of human and animal, in the way even the flowers seem to bow inward, creating shelter.
Painted with expressive, layered brushstrokes, the work moves between clarity and abstraction. Warm earth tones blend with luminous pinks and deeps shadows, creating an atmosphere that feels grounded and dreamlike. The composition pulses with quiet energy - drips and gestural marks suggest that even in rest, life continues its gentle momentum. She is a meditation on sanctuary, on the responsibility of being still enough that wild things trust us enough to stand still with us.
- Current Location: Phoenix Studio
- Collections: Awaken the Totem