Unruly Grace recalls the way hellebores emerge in early spring, blooming while the ground remains strewn with winter’s debris and the air still carries cold. The flower-like form rises through fractured surfaces, scraped layers, and residual darkness, not in spite of the surrounding disorder, but within it.

The painting holds this moment of contradiction: tenderness unfolding amid abrasion, colour pressing forward against a resistant ground. Marks accumulate, interrupt, and reappear, echoing the persistence required for growth before conditions feel welcoming.

Here, grace is not seasonal or assured. It is provisional, weathered, and quietly defiant—an act of becoming rather than arrival.