Black Butterfly | Limited Edition Giclée Print
Medium: Mixed media – Ink, Watercolour, Acrylic
Style: Expressive, abstract, emotionally introspective
Techniques: Free-flowing brushwork, layered washes, bold contrasts
Palette: Earthy neutrals, deep blacks, and muted reds, evoking a sense of movement, transformation, and quiet power
Key Features: A symbolic exploration of truth, perception, and the human condition
Description:
Created during Chapter 2 (2020 - 2023), this piece is part of the Versions of Robert Collection—a deeply personal body of work reflecting my journey through my mother’s stroke, dissociation, and eventual dementia. This period of my life involved immense inner soul work, each piece acting as a page in a diary, accompanied by a poem or story.
“Black Butterfly” represents a messenger, a silent observer of the human experience. It moves through the shadows of thought and perception, questioning the cycles of belief, conflict, detachment, and renewal.
What have we become?
Who are we in this web of opinions?
A cycle of believing, fighting, detaching, and repeating.
The bold black contrasts give weight to its presence, while fluid, layered strokes suggest the butterfly’s quiet movement through time. It doesn’t fight against the world—it simply watches, understands, and reminds us to look deeper.
Details:
- Size: A4 Illustration
- Material: Mixed media on paper
- Unframed
- Original Illustration available
- Only 150 prints available in this edition
