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The painting,
in your hands.

Explore painted ribbons, layered time and ways to encounter the original paintings. Twenty-two active studies remain available, with two experiments set aside.

Tidal Silk

A detail of Tidal Oval unfolds into broad painted ribbons. Open the weave, turn the view, and let the colour move through space.

Unfold the painted silk

Meridian Echo

Red Meridian holds a few moments of its own past. Bend the present, pause, and weave the stored colours differently.

Weave the recent past

Image studies.

The earlier assembly, retained pigment and colour landscape.

Pigment Memory

Pull a spiral through the painting. Your marks remain after release, ready to save as a print.

Make a pigment print

Afterimage Assembly

A real painting gathers from thousands of coloured marks. Press to scatter it; release to bring it home.

Take the painting apart

Chromatic Terrain

Colour becomes a sculpted landscape. Turn the view, raise the surface, and rake its edges with light.

Explore the colour landscape

Spatial studies.

The earlier painted passage and glass bloom.

Painted Passage

Step inside the painted curve. Move through monumental folds and open the next gateway with your hand.

Enter the passage

Prism Bloom

A curl becomes glass. Turn the lenses, watch the colour refract, and press to open the assemblage.

Open the glass bloom

Earlier experiments.

Liquid colour, moving grains and a painted sculpture.

Liquid Loom

Colour becomes a wet surface. Bend the ribbons, catch a reflection, and press to leave a wake.

Move through the colour

Pigment Storm

Let the painting come apart. Moving grains gather into a curl, scatter into a current, and answer your hand.

Enter the moving field

Folded Worlds

Walk around a painted curve. An open sculpture turns in space; its folds, gold seam and shadows shift with your view.

Orbit the sculpture

Material studies.

The earlier relief, paper and evening experiments.

Relief Garden: raised forest, rose and ochre forms with directional light

Relief Garden

Give the colour a little weight. Raise the forms and move the light through a sculpted garden.

vgpu · Surface and shadow
Paper Current: layered blue, coral and ochre organic paper contours

Paper Current

Let the painted curves become cut paper. Separate the layers, turn the curl, and move the seed.

vgpu · A collage in motion
Nocturne in Blue: an ice-blue curl, coral seed and gold counterpoint on deep indigo

Nocturne in Blue

An evening with the blue curl. Open its silhouette, shift the warm centre, and let a gold line answer.

vgpu · An after-dark composition

Following the contour.

The first three native vgpu interpretations.

Gilded Contour: a rose, cream, blue and gold oval profile rendered with vgpu

Gilded Contour

Turn the profile, open the blue curl, and catch the gold. A response to Quiet Face I.

vgpu · Rose, ivory and gold
Riverfold: nested forest, ochre, pink and ice-blue painted curves rendered with vgpu

Riverfold

Widen the river, lean the stem, and lift the pink. Inspired by Tidal Oval and Garden Before Noon.

vgpu · A meeting of curves
Vermilion Exchange: a saffron disc, navy crescent, green sweep and blue hook in a red painted field

Vermilion Exchange

Move the sun, close the crescent, and extend the blue. A dialogue between Red Meridian and The Listener.

vgpu · Warmth and counterpoint

Ways of looking.

The three photograph-led website concepts.

Chromatic Laboratory preview: the same painting on terracotta and blue grounds

Chromatic Laboratory

Same painting. Different surroundings. Change the colour around a work and notice what comes forward.

Compare colour contexts
The Long Look preview: a single large photograph with looking prompts on a plum ground

The Long Look

One painting at a time. Follow a line, look at an edge, or read the note behind the work.

A quiet viewing room
Daylight Chamber preview: an architectural room, a painting and light controls

Daylight Chamber

Morning, noon, dusk. Move the room’s light while the painting keeps its own colours.

An architectural light study

The first explorations.

Three digital compositions inspired by the paintings.

The rhythm of a colour.

Chromatic Score

Kandinsky-like geometry meets the warm red, orange and curved orbits of Red Meridian.

Graphic · expressive · playful
A shape becoming another.

Tidal Forms

Flowing ribbons, nested curves and colour from Tidal Oval, Garden Before Noon and The Listener.

Organic · fluid · sunlit
The quiet weight of an object.

Quiet Relief

An oval, shallow sculptural layers and a light you can move. A closer conversation with Quiet Face I.

Sculptural · intimate · contemplative

From Iana’s paintings.

The original forms remain the reference: ovals, flowing profiles, inset shapes, and colours held in balance. Click a photograph to look closer.

Set aside · 2 studies

Living Garden and Infinite Garden have been removed from the active comparison after artist feedback. Their source and direct links are preserved.

Quiet Face I

Quiet Face I by Iana Kochu

Original painting photograph · Iana Kochu