Rising Tides

Acrylic on canvas, 30 × 30 × 1.5 inches, 2024

Rising Tides is an original acrylic painting depicting a woman swimming through a shifting quilt of refracted light and color. Patterns of aqua, sienna, turquoise, and gold ripple across her body, merging skin and current into a fluid contemporary figurative composition. The water becomes a living fabric, stitched together by movement and light.

The refracted colors flicker and reform with each imagined stroke, creating a rhythm that speaks to endurance and renewal. This underwater painting reflects strength in motion, not through force, but through steady forward movement and balance.

Part of the Women’s Resistance collection, Rising Tides honors the enduring strength of women and the ways they move through resistance with beauty, grace, and unspoken power. Both intimate and expansive, this feminist artwork is a meditation on perseverance expressed through color, water, and the female figure.