When Life Gives you Waves

Acrylic, Canvas, Ready to hang

60cm (W) x 30cm (H) x 2cm (D)

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A$1,160

Arrives 21–23 Sep

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Artwork Description

"When Life Gives You Waves" captures the turbulent intersection of external pressure and internal resilience. This seascape utilizes a high-contrast, moody palette to explore the weight of heavy skies against the relentless energy of crashing waves.

It’s a study in movement, exhaustion, and the strength required to stay afloat when the tides feel overwhelming.

Artist Bio

Stephanie Long is a Gold Coast–based artist whose work centres on emotional healing, self-connection, and the quiet processes of inner transformation. Through murals, painting, and mixed media, her practice explores the unseen layers of the human experience—memory, vulnerability, resilience, and renewal.

Painting from lived experience, including motherhood and personal healing journeys, Stephanie creates work that invites pause and reflection. Her visual language is intuitive and expressive, using layered forms, symbolic imagery, and deliberate linework to reflect the complexity of emotional growth and the restoration of the self.

Her work aims to foster emotional connection and presence, transforming environments into spaces that support reflection, healing, and belonging.

Commissions

Stephanie's studio is in Gold Coast