A painting of a night scene with a girl in a dress and pigtails holding a lantern, standing on a grassy path surrounded by flowers and trees with glowing lights, leading up to a house with lit windows.
A painting hanging on a teal wall depicting a girl sitting by a river under a bridge illuminated by hanging lights, with a house and trees in the background. A vase with white dried flowers is placed on a ledge below the painting.

The Way Home Was Already Lit 

Enchanted Spaces 
Mixed Media (oil and oil pastel on canvas), 2024 
40 x 50 cm / 19.68 x 15.74 inches 

A child pauses at the edge of a lantern-lit path, surrounded by scattered points of light that emerge slowly from the night.

A night scene unfolds with measured attention rather than urgency. A young child steps from tall grass, holding a lantern as she pauses at the edge of a narrow path that curves toward a distant home. Small garden lights mark the way, illuminating trees and foliage in intervals, establishing a quiet rhythm that carries the eye forward. 

The surface begins with black gesso, grounding the scene in darkness. Oil pastel builds the nocturnal atmosphere, allowing colour to surface gradually, as if held within the night itself. A final layer of oil paint introduces subtle shifts between warmth and coolness, creating depth through contrast rather than detail. Fireflies drift through the foreground, their dispersed points of light joining the lantern and garden lamps, so that illumination is shared rather than concentrated. 

The moment is held in suspension. The path is visible, the light dispersed, the figure attentive. Nothing presses forward, yet nothing is withheld. 

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