“Pale painting titled Gentle Spirit showing the head of a white deer with a long muzzle and dark eyes, emerging from a softly blended cream and lavender background.”⠋
“Pale painting titled Gentle Spirit showing the head of a white deer with a long muzzle and dark eyes, emerging from a softly blended cream and lavender background., framed view.
“Pale painting titled Gentle Spirit showing the head of a white deer with a long muzzle and dark eyes, emerging from a softly blended cream and lavender background., framed view.
“Pale painting titled Gentle Spirit showing the head of a white deer with a long muzzle and dark eyes, emerging from a softly blended cream and lavender background., framed view.
“Pale painting titled Gentle Spirit showing the head of a white deer with a long muzzle and dark eyes, emerging from a softly blended cream and lavender background.
“Pale painting titled Gentle Spirit showing the head of a white deer with a long muzzle and dark eyes, emerging from a softly blended cream and lavender background.”⠋
“Pale painting titled Gentle Spirit showing the head of a white deer with a long muzzle and dark eyes, emerging from a softly blended cream and lavender background., framed view.
“Pale painting titled Gentle Spirit showing the head of a white deer with a long muzzle and dark eyes, emerging from a softly blended cream and lavender background., framed view.
“Pale painting titled Gentle Spirit showing the head of a white deer with a long muzzle and dark eyes, emerging from a softly blended cream and lavender background., framed view.
“Pale painting titled Gentle Spirit showing the head of a white deer with a long muzzle and dark eyes, emerging from a softly blended cream and lavender background.

Gentle Spirit

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The horse's head is bowed softly downward, mane flowing in loose, sweeping arcs of pale lavender, blush, and ivory — as though caught mid-movement, or perhaps mid-dream. At its edges the figure dissolves into the luminous, barely-there background, giving the whole work an almost otherworldly quality, as though the horse is materialising from mist or memory.

The oil handling is exquisitely light — confident, fluid strokes that suggest form rather than define it, allowing the viewer's eye to complete what the brush has so gracefully begun. Warm amber and cool grey-blue accents give depth and warmth to what might otherwise be an entirely white canvas. The result is a painting of extraordinary delicacy: wild made gentle, power made still, beauty held so lightly it almost floats.

A deeply moving work for a bedroom, living room, or any space that calls for grace and quiet presence.

  • Original oil on stretched canvas
  • Size: 46.5W × 61H cm
  • Unframed, ready to hang
  • Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett