Fire does not apologise for what it consumes. It transforms. It clears. And from what remains, something new becomes possible — stronger, perhaps, for having been through the heat.

This mixed media abstraction does not depict fire so much as embody it. Layered techniques and richly tactile surfaces build up depth and movement across the board — raw energy made physical, warmth you can almost feel when you stand close. There is nothing decorative about it. It is elemental. Honest. The kind of work that holds its own in a room and reminds you that renewal rarely comes gently.

A compact yet commanding piece, ready to hang and impossible to ignore.

• Original textured mixed media on board
• Size: 40W × 30H cm
• Ready to hang
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

Nothing in nature stands still. Petals catch the wind. Blossoms let go. And in that moment of release — that split second between holding on and flying — there is something that looks remarkably like dancing.

This large-scale mixed media and oil painting captures exactly that moment. A dramatic white blossom, windswept and transforming, seems to move across the surface of the paper — caught mid-flight, mid-breath, mid-becoming. Layers of texture and expressive mark-making give the work a kinetic energy that changes with the light and the angle from which you view it.

At 70 × 100 cm, it commands a wall without overwhelming it — a statement piece that brings movement, elegance, and life into any interior.

• Original mixed media and oil on Fabriano 290gsm paper
• Size: 70W × 100H cm
• Unframed — ready for your choice of frame
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

He is not looking at you. He is looking past you — steady, unhurried, aware of something just beyond the frame. And yet you cannot shake the feeling that he has already seen everything worth seeing.

This is a painting built from tension and contrast. A dark trench coat, incised with intricate cross-hatched patterns cut directly into thick impasto paint, anchors a figure who seems to dissolve at the edges — the coat melting into fluid, dripping tendrils at the base. Against him, the background burns: fierce crimsons, hot oranges, and deep plums layered with geometric and lace-like stamped textures that pulse with energy. His vibrant orange hair and sculpted beard glow against the cool darkness of his coat. He belongs to both worlds — the still and the volatile.

At 70 × 100 cm, The Watcher demands a wall of its own. It is the kind of work that changes a room — and stays with you long after you leave it.

• Original mixed media and oil on Fabriano 290gsm paper
• Size: 70W × 100H cm
• Unframed — ready for your choice of frame
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

There are moments when joy becomes too large to contain — when it moves through you and out of you, when the body simply has to respond. This painting was born from one of those moments.

A woman is lost in pure, uninhibited celebration. Arms, movement, colour — everything in the painting vibrates with the kind of freedom that comes not from the absence of struggle, but from having found something deeper on the other side of it. The layers of mixed media and oil on Arches paper carry that energy: textured, alive, built with the same abandon the figure embodies.

This is a painting about praise. About the lightness that arrives when you stop holding back. About dancing in grace.

It brings that same energy into any room it enters — vivid, joyful, and utterly alive.

• Original mixed media and oil on Arches 300gsm cold press paper
• Size: 56W × 76H cm
• Unframed — ready for your choice of frame
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett