Breathe, 65" x 23"

Oil on Panel.

Another piece in the series of Mother and Child. The painting captures the last stage of pregnancy when breathing becomes more of a challenge. A woman becomes very aware of how precious it is to breathe easy; this little life that is within is requiring more and it’s almost time for his or her arrival. This stately piece proclaims the practical principle of being an ‘Overcomer’.

Joanna Aplin’s figurative and abstract paintings are clean and captivating. Her classically trained yet contemporary approach to color, form, and line makes her work aesthetically pleasing to all walks of life. Her compositions carry an intrinsic sense of balance and proportion. Aplin takes her visual cues from the complexities in nature and the human form, then welcomes a reductive process – knowing it will lead to a simpler, more essential presentation of the subject matter.