Soft pastel ocean painting with blurred, flowing waves and a pink and gold sky, creating a calm long exposure effect over a … Soft pastel ocean painting with blurred, flowing waves and a pink and gold sky, creating a calm long exposure effect over a … Soft pastel ocean painting with blurred, flowing waves and a pink and gold sky, creating a calm long exposure effect over a … Soft pastel ocean painting with blurred, flowing waves and a pink and gold sky, creating a calm long ex… — artist's signature Soft pastel ocean painting with blurred, flowing waves and a pink and gold sky, creating a calm long exposure ef… — edge view Soft pastel ocean painting with blurred, flowing waves and a pink and gold sky, creating a calm long exposure effec… — detail Soft pastel ocean painting with blurred, flowing waves and a pink and gold sky, creating a calm long exposur… — shown hanging
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Soft pastel ocean painting with blurred, flowing waves and a pink and gold sky, creating a calm long exposure effect over a …
Soft pastel ocean painting with blurred, flowing waves and a pink and gold sky, creating a calm long exposure effect over a …
Soft pastel ocean painting with blurred, flowing waves and a pink and gold sky, creating a calm long exposure effect over a …
Soft pastel ocean painting with blurred, flowing waves and a pink and gold sky, creating a calm long ex… — artist's signature
Soft pastel ocean painting with blurred, flowing waves and a pink and gold sky, creating a calm long exposure ef… — edge view
Soft pastel ocean painting with blurred, flowing waves and a pink and gold sky, creating a calm long exposure effec… — detail
Soft pastel ocean painting with blurred, flowing waves and a pink and gold sky, creating a calm long exposur… — shown hanging
Painting by Alanah Jarvis 477 Artworks Sold

Quiet Oceans

Oil, Canvas, Ready to hang

122cm (W) x 92cm (H) x 4cm (D)

Certificate of Authenticity Included
A$1,330

Artwork Description

Quiet Oceans, by Alanah Jarvis

A soft horizon melts into motion as sea and sky blend in a gentle, dreamlike rhythm. Quiet Oceans captures the essence of stillness within movement, where long sweeping strokes mimic the hush of waves rolling endlessly toward shore. The pastel sky glows with warmth, reflecting across the water in a way that feels both calming and quietly uplifting, like a memory of a peaceful evening by the coast.

There is a sense of time slowing here, as if the ocean itself is breathing. The blurred movement evokes the beauty of long exposure photography, allowing each wave to feel fluid and continuous rather than fixed. It invites a moment of pause, encouraging reflection and a return to simple, grounding joy found in nature.

This piece brings a light and airy presence into a space, offering a subtle reminder of open horizons and the quiet happiness that comes from being near the sea.

This canvas is placed on Sustainable Canvas, made from 100% recycled plastic bottles to keep this plastic out of the environment or landfill. The canvas resists mould & won't sag on stretcher bars over time as it doesn’t expand and contract like other fibre canvases. Its ready to be passed down for generations.

Artist Bio
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Alanah Jarvis 580 artworks | 125 Sold

Alanah Jarvis is an Australian painter working from her studio in Bayside, Melbourne, with more than 466 original works now hanging in homes across Australia and internationally. Her practice moves between two bodies of work: the Abstract Weathered Series and the Realistic Ocean Series.

The Abstract Weathered Series is grounded in wabi sabi, the idea that beauty lives in what is worn, imperfect and shaped by time. These are heavy textured artworks built through layering, palette knife and impasto work, then eroded back, so the surface carries the same marks that wind and water leave on stone, timber and earth. The palettes are drawn from Australian nature: ochre, blush, weathered white, dark green & gold. Each contemporary abstract painting is made to reward a second look, colour that shifts with the light, and texture you want to reach out and touch.

The Realistic Ocean Series turns to the coastline. Painted in oil, these seascape paintings and underwater works follow the ocean's changing light and movement, the surface from above, the stillness beneath. They bring space, breath and calm into a room.

Alanah paints on recycled polyester canvas, built to outlast natural fibre canvases. Reclaiming material that would otherwise be discarded has shaped how she works: the surface arrives with a history already in it, which suits a body of work about the marks time leaves behind. She founded Sustainable Canvas to make that material available to other artists and the range was awarded Gold for Product Innovation at the ROAR Awards, recognition for the same canvas these paintings are made on.

Alanah was named a Top 50 Small Business Leader by Inside Small Business (2025) and a Top 100 Finalist in the She-Com Business Awards (2026).

Originals ship ready to hang unless the listing states otherwise. Commissions welcome, Alanah works with collectors and interior designers on pieces made for a specific space, palette and scale.