How It Feels When I Dont Know What To Say

How It Feels When I Don't Know What To Say by Elle Pervez - Rendered in layered purples reminiscent of the night sky, this piece captures the feeling of holding words inside, when thoughts swirl but language feels just out of reach. Within the abstraction, hidden forms begin to emerge: delicate flowers, drifting rain clouds, figures, birds in motion. Like emotions themselves, they are not immediately obvious, they reveal themselves slowly.

The composition moves between softness and depth, stillness and movement, echoing the internal experience of searching for expression. It is both expansive and intimate, like standing beneath a vast sky heavy with feeling.

This work forms part of Metamorphosis, a series examining silence, space, and transformation. Moving between desert terrains and abstraction, the collection mirrors the internal journey from containment to emergence.

How It Feels When I Don't Know What To Say has an abundance of texture and warmth. If you run your fingertips over the canvas, the texture tells a story to you too.

Unstretched canvas size: 160w x 245h cm

Approximate size after stretching: 150w x 225h cm

Medium: Acrylic and gold on unstretched canvas.

This artwork is on unstretched canvas. I estimate the size of the painting to be 150 × 225 after stretching and have provided a few photos to show you the excess canvas to facilitate framing. Please note this artwork will come rolled. The ripple effect you may notice is because the artwork is unstretched - this will vanish once the canvas is taught on a frame.

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Elle Pervez is an Australian artist whose work is deeply informed by her upbringing between remote communities in the Northern Territory and a farm in rural New South Wales. Immersed from an early age in vast horizons and ever-shifting terrain, she developed a lasting connection to the Australian landscape, a connection that continues to shape and anchor her artistic practice.

Working primarily with acrylic on canvas, Elle builds richly layered compositions. Her practice often incorporates mixed-media elements such as metallic gold leaf and oil stick, adding luminosity and depth to her textured surfaces. The interplay between abstraction and landscape is central to her work, allowing memory, emotion and place to merge on the canvas.

Elle’s paintings seek to evoke a sense of connection; to land, to light, and to something both personal and collective. Through intuitive mark-making and expressive colour, she translates the feeling of wide skies, desert air and open space into immersive visual experiences. Her work invites viewers to pause, reflect, and find their own meaning within each piece.

At its heart, her practice is about transformation and resonance, creating artworks that bring warmth, depth and vitality into the spaces they inhabit.

In recent collections, her practice has expanded to explore the idea of metamorphosis, the in-between spaces of becoming, awakening and self-return. Her work is guided by intuition, often beginning without a fixed plan and unfolding organically, allowing emotion to lead composition.

Elle has participated in many group shows and solo exhibitions across the country. Most recently Elle was a Finalist in Leda Gallery’s Emerging Art Prize 2025, Green, and Revival Art and Design Gallery’s Emerging Artist Prize 2026.