Turtle Leaf - sometimes a turtle, sometimes the sprouting leaves of a new flower bud.
It's up to the owner on which way they'd like the paintings in this series to be orientated. It may be a turtle in the playroom, a sprouting bud in the entryway. Charissa hopes her paintings enable stories to be told, perhaps trigger a song or nursery rhyme, bring a smile and inject life and fun into a space.
She wanted to make her children laugh, to make them guess and tilt their heads as to what this was a painting of!
The subject matter is painted on a white washed background, under which lies an abstract piece of expressive mark making and field of colour. Charissa wanted each layer to be able to stand on it's own and yet together create curiosity.
This painting is composed of acrylic and spray paint on canvas. It is signed on the side.