Mixed media portrait of a woman with a contemplative expression, her head slightly tilted to the side. She wears a purple textured headwrap, and her skin has soft, warm tones. The background is rich with layered textures, including crackle patterns, abstract shapes, and faint script, blending shades of yellow, green, and purple. Words from a poem, "What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive - Walter Scott," are visible in the upper right. The overall composition has an ethereal, dreaml

Listening

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Mixed media portrait of a woman with a contemplative expression, her head slightly tilted to the side. She wears a purple textured headwrap, and her skin has soft, warm tones. The background is rich with layered textures, including crackle patterns, abstract shapes, and faint script, blending shades of yellow, green, and purple. Words from a poem, "What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive - Walter Scott," are visible in the upper right. The overall composition has an ethereal, dreaml
  • Mixed media portrait of a woman with a contemplative expression, her head slightly tilted to the side. She wears a purple textured headwrap, and her skin has soft, warm tones. The background is rich with layered textures, including crackle patterns, abstract shapes, and faint script, blending shades of yellow, green, and purple. Words from a poem, "What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive - Walter Scott," are visible in the upper right. The overall composition has an ethereal, dreaml
  • Mixed media portrait of a woman with a contemplative expression, her head slightly tilted to the side. She wears a purple textured headwrap, and her skin has soft, warm tones. The background is rich with layered textures, including crackle patterns, abstract shapes, and faint script, blending shades of yellow, green, and purple. Words from a poem, "What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive - Walter Scott," are visible in the upper right. The overall composition has an ethereal, dreaml
  • Mixed media portrait of a woman with a contemplative expression, her head slightly tilted to the side. She wears a purple textured headwrap, and her skin has soft, warm tones. The background is rich with layered textures, including crackle patterns, abstract shapes, and faint script, blending shades of yellow, green, and purple. Words from a poem, "What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive - Walter Scott," are visible in the upper right. The overall composition has an ethereal, dreaml
  • Mixed media portrait of a woman with a contemplative expression, her head slightly tilted to the side. She wears a purple textured headwrap, and her skin has soft, warm tones. The background is rich with layered textures, including crackle patterns, abstract shapes, and faint script, blending shades of yellow, green, and purple. Words from a poem, "What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive - Walter Scott," are visible in the upper right. The overall composition has an ethereal, dreaml
  • Mixed media portrait of a woman with a contemplative expression, her head slightly tilted to the side. She wears a purple textured headwrap, and her skin has soft, warm tones. The background is rich with layered textures, including crackle patterns, abstract shapes, and faint script, blending shades of yellow, green, and purple. Words from a poem, "What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive - Walter Scott," are visible in the upper right. The overall composition has an ethereal, dreaml
  • Mixed media portrait of a woman with a contemplative expression, her head slightly tilted to the side. She wears a purple textured headwrap, and her skin has soft, warm tones. The background is rich with layered textures, including crackle patterns, abstract shapes, and faint script, blending shades of yellow, green, and purple. Words from a poem, "What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive - Walter Scott," are visible in the upper right. The overall composition has an ethereal, dreaml
  • Mixed media portrait of a woman with a contemplative expression, her head slightly tilted to the side. She wears a purple textured headwrap, and her skin has soft, warm tones. The background is rich with layered textures, including crackle patterns, abstract shapes, and faint script, blending shades of yellow, green, and purple. Words from a poem, "What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive - Walter Scott," are visible in the upper right. The overall composition has an ethereal, dreaml
  • Mixed media portrait of a woman with a contemplative expression, her head slightly tilted to the side. She wears a purple textured headwrap, and her skin has soft, warm tones. The background is rich with layered textures, including crackle patterns, abstract shapes, and faint script, blending shades of yellow, green, and purple. Words from a poem, "What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive - Walter Scott," are visible in the upper right. The overall composition has an ethereal, dreaml
  • Mixed media portrait of a woman with a contemplative expression, her head slightly tilted to the side. She wears a purple textured headwrap, and her skin has soft, warm tones. The background is rich with layered textures, including crackle patterns, abstract shapes, and faint script, blending shades of yellow, green, and purple. Words from a poem, "What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive - Walter Scott," are visible in the upper right. The overall composition has an ethereal, dreaml
  • Mixed media portrait of a woman with a contemplative expression, her head slightly tilted to the side. She wears a purple textured headwrap, and her skin has soft, warm tones. The background is rich with layered textures, including crackle patterns, abstract shapes, and faint script, blending shades of yellow, green, and purple. Words from a poem, "What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive - Walter Scott," are visible in the upper right. The overall composition has an ethereal, dreaml
Listening

Listening

$138.00

Real listening is rare. It requires stillness, attention, and a willingness to sit with complexity — to hear not just the words, but what lives beneath them.

This is a painting that asks you to do exactly that.

A woman tilts gently in contemplation, her luminous eyes holding a gaze that is both intense and at peace. Her vibrant purple headwrap anchors her presence amid a richly layered background that rewards close looking: oil washes and collage elements intertwine — typed text on family dynamics, a Walter Scott quote emerging in warm ochre and olive, delicate web-like lines threading across a soft lavender field, musical notations drifting like half-remembered melodies. Every element has something to say. Together, they create a tapestry of thought, memory, and meaning that mirrors the complexity of true human connection.

Painted on a gallery-wrapped square canvas, it hangs unframed and ready — a complete statement on its own.

  • Original mixed media and oils on gallery-wrapped canvas
  • Size: 50.8 × 50.8 cm
  • Unframed, ready to hang
  • Signed by the artist, Trudie Averett

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