12" x 12" Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas Board
Original artwork by Dawn Van Ness
A moody, layered mixed media painting exploring tenderness, survival, and the quiet persistence of living things. Created with acrylic, textured mark-making, and actual butterfly remnants found in the garden, Broken Butterfly reflects on the idea that injury does not end movement—that what is altered still belongs, still reaches toward light, still participates in the world.
Soft coastal blues, deep shadowed greens, and flashes of coral pink move through the piece like memory, signal, and bloom.
Part of an ongoing body of work centered on nature, emotional weather, healing, and soft landings.
Damage does not end the movement.
12" x 12" Acrylic & Mixed Media on Canvas Board
Original artwork by Dawn Van Ness
A moody, layered mixed media painting exploring tenderness, survival, and the quiet persistence of living things. Created with acrylic, textured mark-making, and actual butterfly remnants found in the garden, Broken Butterfly reflects on the idea that injury does not end movement—that what is altered still belongs, still reaches toward light, still participates in the world.
Soft coastal blues, deep shadowed greens, and flashes of coral pink move through the piece like memory, signal, and bloom.
Part of an ongoing body of work centered on nature, emotional weather, healing, and soft landings.
Damage does not end the movement.
