ashar

oil on a wooden panel 30x30cm
Fracture Beneath — a nod to Dartmoor’s layered terrain and the unseen forces that shape it.
A jagged line traverses a pale field—fractured, vivid, and quietly insistent. Two bursts of colour anchor the composition: one flares on the left, the other on the right, rendered in reds, oranges, and yellows with black accents that suggest tension or geological force. The line between them is not smooth—it crackles, shifts, resists. It feels like Dartmoor itself: ancient, unsettled, alive beneath the surface.
This painting evokes the moor’s elemental drama—not through depiction, but through rhythm and rupture. It speaks to the land’s hidden movements, its emotional undercurrents, its quiet volatility. The minimal background amplifies the energy of the marks, allowing the viewer to feel the space between.
For collectors, this work offers a distilled abstraction of place—where landscape becomes metaphor, and gesture becomes memory. It’s ideal for those drawn to poetic minimalism and emotional depth.


I use oil pastels, oil sticks, markers, scrapers, charcoal, pigment sticks, newspaper, and graphite to make marks, whichever fits the moment.
UV protected, signed on the back. The work is on a plywood panel and is ready to hang. No further framing is needed.

Ref: 24/07