Between the Flags I

An Australian beach oil painting of the moment every summer holds: a family hand-in-hand at the water's edge, a teal wave rising before them, the red-and-yellow flag snapping in the onshore wind. Between the Flags is a series of small seascape oil paintings about the comfort of being held within bounds - safe water, wide sky, simple presence. Every Australian knows what it means to swim between the flags; this is that feeling, kept.

First in the series. Each painting is complete in itself; together they make a shoreline

Oil on stretched canvas, signed on the front, wired and ready to hang. Ships boxed from Melbourne with a Certificate of Authenticity

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Jessica Taft is a Melbourne-based Australian figurative artist painting the ocean, the body, and the quiet space between them. Classically trained, she works in oil and watercolour, building each painting the way a self is built: layer by layer, passages of fine realism melting into expressive abstraction.

Her work explores what we carry - grief, joy, heartbreak, becoming - and the moment that weight changes shape into strength. Figures suspended between memory and now. Flowers blooming straight out of the body. Water you can finally stop fighting and float in. Made for thoughtful people who want their homes to feel like sanctuaries, and who know strength and softness were never opposites.