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Floating

Floating

Richard Austin Chelsea, QC
28x22inunframed
Price

C$800

Shipping Cost
Free pickup is available from our Vancouver Gallery, or shipping can be provided for additional cost.
We also offer an installment payment program and art installation services: contact us for more details.
About the Artwork

The painting abstracts and reimagines natural phenomena, pushing it toward the symbolic or psychological. The title Floating aptly reflects both the visual weightlessness of the forms and a potential emotional state—a liminal zone between groundedness and drifting, presence and detachment.

The composition moves vertically and diagonally, with layered, amoeba-like modules suggesting motion and organic flux. The alternating colour fields create a subtle illusion of depth and shifting perspective, pulling the viewer into a landscape of pure form and intuitive gesture.

There is a quiet dynamism here—an interplay between structure and randomness. The green tones evoke the serenity of mossy forest trails, while the red side suggest fall foliage, emotional intensity, or transformation.

This binary or duality introduces a narrative tension: a transition or threshold. The spaces in between—negative gaps of light—also play an important compositional role, forming their own rhythm that contributes to the painting’s breath-like expansion and contraction.

Technique:Acrylic on Gallery Canvas
Details & Dimensions
Edition:Original, one of a kind artwork
Unframed Size:28in x 22in
Frame:Not framed
Weight:4.1lbs (estimated)
Shipping & Purchase
Free pickup is available from our Vancouver Gallery, or shipping can be provided for additional cost.
Standard shipping is via Canada Post ground. Typically, packages sent within Canada are received in 5-12 days. For expedited shipping, please contact us for a quote.
A payment program is available with three equal installments- we can work together to support artists and your budget! Contact us for details.

Richard Austin

Chelsea, Quebec

Richard Austin is a Canadian painter, independent filmmaker, photographer, and former art editor whose multidisciplinary artistic practice is rooted in decades of visual storytelling.

"My practice of creating contemporary, abstracted art based on the Canadian landscape involves vivid colours, flattened perspectives, and assertive contour lines, evoking spaces that feel both familiar and dreamlike, rather than depicting a specific geographic reality. I’m drawn to expansive vistas and ambiguous forms — scenes that stimulate intuition."

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