Mark Making

A quiet pause becomes a moment of compelling presence in A Breath Between Notes. This charcoal portrait captures a  musician with a wind instrument held to their lips, their gaze turned aside in an expression that invites contemplation.

Rich shadows and softly worked tonal passages lend depth to the face and hands, while the grain of the charcoal brings a tactile intimacy to the image. Carefully observed details emerge from looser, atmospheric marks, drawing the viewer into the stillness surrounding the music.

An expressive work for collectors drawn to figurative art, portraiture, and the understated beauty of charcoal.

Charcoal on paper. A3, 29.7 × 42 cm. Sold unframed, allowing you to choose a frame that complements your space.

A lifted chin and an upward gaze give Quiet Resolve a compelling sense of inner strength. Vivid blue pastel shapes the face through deep shadows and luminous highlights, while the muted background offers a gentle contrast to the portrait’s striking intensity.

Visible pastel marks and the texture of the paper bring an intimate, tactile quality to the work. Poised between vulnerability and determination, this expressive portrait invites the viewer to pause and imagine the story behind the gaze.

Created in pastel on paper, this A4 artwork measures 21 × 29.7 cm. Its intimate scale makes it a thoughtful choice for collectors drawn to expressive portraiture and colour-led works on paper.

Unframed.

Some faces demand to be seen. Shadows of Intensity draws the viewer in with a gaze that feels raw, searching, and deeply human. Rendered in rich charcoal on watercolour paper, the portrait uses shadow as its primary language, allowing selective light to sculpt the contours of the face with quiet precision.

The dark-ground technique gives the work its striking emotional depth. Details emerge gradually from the darkness, creating a portrait that feels less like a simple likeness and more like a moment of revelation: unguarded emotion held still in charcoal. The contrast between softness and intensity invites a longer look and a more personal interpretation.

This one-of-a-kind artwork brings a commanding presence to a room. It is not background decoration, but a conversation piece for collectors drawn to expressive figurative art, dramatic contrast, and the timeless power of drawing.

• Original charcoal on watercolour paper
• Size: 55 W × 68 H cm, including frame
• Dark-ground technique with selective light
• Framed and ready to hang
• One of a kind
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

He was chosen before he understood what that meant. Gifted with strength he did not ask for, called to a purpose that would cost him everything. And yet — in the end — he held.

This charcoal portrait captures Samson in a moment of inward reckoning. His gaze, framed by shadow and a drawn hood, is not defiant — it is resolute. There is weariness here, and weight, but beneath it something unbroken. The rough texture of charcoal on watercolour paper mirrors that duality: raw and powerful on the surface, with a quiet depth that reveals itself slowly. Dramatic contrasts of light and dark speak to the tension at the heart of his story — physical might and spiritual vulnerability, human frailty and divine calling, held together in one extraordinary life.

This is a painting for anyone who knows what it means to carry a purpose larger than themselves — and to keep going anyway.

• Original charcoal on watercolour paper
• Size: 55W × 68H cm (including frame)
• Framed and ready to hang
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

There are moments when the path ahead disappears into mist — when the noise of life falls away and all that remains is the quiet, searching question of the soul: Where am I being led?

This figure, bathed in soft blues, emerges from that mist without panic. His gaze is still, his eyes hold a gentle glow — the kind that comes not from certainty about what lies ahead, but from trust in what lies beneath. It is the look of someone who has learned that even in the quietest, most uncertain moments, they are not alone.

Rendered in mixed media on pastel board, the work carries a luminous delicacy — soft layers that suggest both fragility and resilience, vulnerability and faith held together. It is a painting about the grace found in surrender. About the light that appears, not despite the darkness, but within it.

• Original mixed media on pastel board
• Framed size: 48.5W × 56H cm
• Framed and ready to hang
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

The mind is rarely a quiet place. Ideas interrupt each other, feelings fold over memories, and somewhere in the middle of all of it — a face. A steady gaze. A person holding themselves together even as the lines swirl.

This pen drawing builds a portrait from the inside out. Swirling, overlapping marks spiral across the paper, forming a face from what appears to be pure thought in motion — chaotic and controlled, confused and clear, all at once. The tension between the tangled linework and the calm in the figure’s eyes is the heart of the piece: the duality of a mind that is full, and a spirit that is still.

Executed in black ink on paper with a minimalist discipline that lets every line carry its full weight, this is a drawing that rewards close looking. The closer you get, the more each mark seems to hold its own story — and the more the whole becomes something remarkable.

• Original pen on paper
• Framed size: 47W × 55.5H cm
• Framed and ready to hang
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

No matter how far we wander, something in us always knows the way back.

This painting is an invitation into a whimsical village nestled in the mist — textured rooftops and leaning structures built from layers of collage and paint, each one imperfect, each one unmistakably lived in. Intricate mark-making and faint geometric patterns thread through the composition like the invisible ties that connect neighbours, families, and shared histories. The mist softens every edge, lending the scene an ethereal quality that holds both the hidden stories and the fleeting moments of quiet that make a place feel like home.

It is a painting about community and refuge. About the way, despite all the chaos and wandering, all roads eventually lead back to the people and places that hold us.

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

The mind is a remarkable place to wander. Thoughts rise and drift and catch the light — some bright and fleeting, some slow and luminous, some so delicate you barely dare to look at them directly for fear they’ll vanish.

This painting gives those thoughts a shape. A woman in profile is enveloped by a swirling sea of iridescent bubbles — each one its own small world, catching colour, reflecting possibility. Her expression is contemplative, turned inward, entirely at home in the beautiful chaos surrounding her. The mixed media layering on canvas board gives the work a vibrancy and texture that feels alive, almost effervescent — as if the bubbles might drift off the surface at any moment.

Joyful, whimsical, and quietly profound — a painting that brings lightness and wonder to any space it inhabits.

• Original mixed media on canvas board
• Size: 49.5W × 29.5H cm
• Unframed — ready for your choice of frame
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

We are never just one thing. Every person carries within them a whole archive — memories, words, textures, half-formed ideas, things felt but never said. This painting is built the same way.

A solitary silhouette stands at the heart of the composition, surrounded by richly layered mixed media — paint and textile, written word and abstract mark, each element a fragment of an interior world made visible. The figure is both present and elsewhere, turned inward in the way we all are when something important is being worked out quietly, privately, in the deep layers of the self.

Small in size but dense with meaning, this is a painting that reveals more the longer you spend with it — much like thought itself.

• Original mixed media and oil on cradled board
• Size: 21W × 30H cm
• Unframed — ready for your choice of frame
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

If flowers could make a sound, this is what it would look like.

A whimsical garden of abstract blooms — red, yellow, blue, and purple — sways across a soft watercolour background, alive with colour and gentle movement. Musical notes drift between the stems, and words like grace and patience float through the composition like lyrics to a song you can almost hear. It is a painting full of lightness and quiet joy — the kind that doesn’t demand anything of you, but simply makes the room feel better for being in it.

Small in scale, generous in spirit — a perfect piece for a bedside table, a reading nook, or anywhere that deserves a little more beauty and calm.

• Original mixed media on paper on cradled board
• Size: 21W × 30H cm
• Unframed — ready for your choice of frame
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

Some things are felt before they are understood: a glance, a stillness, or a quiet that settles over a room like the last light through a window. In The Whisper of Wishes, a serene woman closes her eyes as she holds a delicate dandelion near her face. Seeds drift softly into the air, suggesting wishes released and possibilities carried beyond sight.

Rendered in pastel pencils on pastel board, the portrait is alive with gentle colour, fine texture, and quiet detail. Her reddish hair forms soft, dandelion-like shapes, while the blue background and green garment deepen the work’s tranquil, dreamlike quality. There is no drama here, only an intimate sense of reflection and something tender being held.

This one-of-a-kind artwork brings stillness to a space. It invites the viewer to pause, breathe, and reconnect with the wishes that are too delicate for words.

• Original pastel pencils on pastel board
• Framed size: 47 W × 55.5 H cm
• Framed and ready to hang
• One of a kind
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

A woman stands in profile, pale and serene, her gaze cast gently upward — lost in private thought. At her shoulder, a barn owl perches with wings half-spread, as though it has just landed and whispered something only she can hear. Together they exist in perfect, unhurried companionship. Neither is performing. Both simply are.

Rendered in soft washes of gold, sage green, warm blush, and cream on pastel board, the work has a dreamlike, luminous quality — delicate line work weaving through fluid colour to give both figures a tender, living presence. The loosely textured yellow-green ground glows like late afternoon light filtering through leaves, wrapping the whole composition in a stillness that feels ancient and completely at peace.

A work of rare gentleness — for anyone who has felt the quiet guidance of intuition, or the comfort of simply knowing without needing to explain it.

• Original mixed media on pastel board
• Framed size: 48.5W × 56H cm
• Framed and ready to hang
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

Between waking and sleep, there is a place where the mind wanders freely — where thoughts soften, the body releases, and something deeper takes over. This painting lives in that place.

A figure rests in deep stillness — eyes closed, expression utterly at peace — suspended between slumber and meditation. Rendered in mixed media on pastel board, the work has a softness that is almost tactile: subtle textures and layered tones that draw you closer, slow your breath, and invite you to stay a while.

In any room, Dreamscape becomes an anchor of calm. A reminder that rest is not an absence of life — it is where the most important things happen.

• Original mixed media on pastel board
• Framed size: 47W × 55.5H cm
• Framed and ready to hang
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

There is a moment — after the struggle, after the weight of every wall you’ve pressed against — when something shifts. When your arms go up and the bricks give way and suddenly you are on the other side of everything that was holding you back.

This painting captures that exact moment. A stylized blue figure stands triumphant, arms raised, physically bursting through structured brick walls on either side. The figure’s body is collaged with fragments of printed text — encouragements, affirmations, words of love and focus — overlaid with expressive looping script, as if the very language of resilience has become part of who they are. Behind them, a swirling sky of lavender, deep violet, sun yellow, and fiery orange pulses with energy and release. A delicate archway of fine white dots frames the moment like a portal — a threshold crossed.

Small in scale but enormous in presence, this is a painting for anyone who knows what it means to keep going.

• Original mixed media and oil on cradled board
• Size: 30W × 21H cm
• Unframed — ready for your choice of frame
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

We are never quite finished. Every version of ourselves is a step toward the next — shedding, shifting, reaching, and slowly, quietly, finding form.

This intimate mixed media painting holds that in-between place with tenderness. Layered and expressive, it captures a figure in the midst of transformation — not yet arrived, but deeply, unmistakably on the way. Oil paint and mixed media build texture and depth across a small cradled board, each mark a record of process, each layer a metaphor for how growth actually works: slowly, imperfectly, beautifully.

Small enough to sit on a shelf or desk, powerful enough to shift the feeling of a room. This is art for anyone who is in the middle of their own becoming.

• Original mixed media and oil on cradled board
• Size: 21W × 30H cm
• Unframed — ready for your choice of frame
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

Five dark silhouetted figures stride and saunter along a sunlit street, their backs to us — anonymous, yet utterly familiar. Behind them, a carnival of colour rises: bold, graphic buildings in turquoise, red, yellow, magenta, and pink stack up against a pale sky in a joyful, almost exuberant cityscape that hums with life and possibility.

The contrast between the grounded, dark figures and the vibrant city behind them is the heart of the piece — they are both part of it and apart from it, moving through the world with purpose and ease. There is warmth here, and humour, and a deep affection for the everyday drama of urban existence. The kind of painting that makes city life look exactly as good as it sometimes feels.

A bold, cheerful work that brings energy, colour, and urban optimism to any space.

• Original mixed media on paper and cradled board
• Size: 29.7W × 21H cm (A4)
• Unframed — ready for your choice of frame
• Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett