200 x 150 cm
After the Storm
After the Storm
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Product Details:
- Title: After the Storm
- Artist: Kristin Kossi
- Year: 2026
- Dimensions: 200 (W) x 150 (H) x 2,5 cm (D)cm
- Style: Contemporary, Abstract Expressionism
- Signature: Signed by the artist
- Condition: 1/1 Original
- Medium: Acrylic, oil stick on canvas
- Framing & Display: un-stretched canvas, shipped rolled
- Shipping: Free worldwide shipping
✔ Exclusive, one-of-a-kind piece
✔ Comes with a signed Certificate of Authenticity
About the artwork:
"After the Storm" was inspired by the aftermath of one of the biggest storms to hit parts of Western Cape/ South Africa and the nature reserve around my studio. When the rain finally stopped, the landscape had changed. Rivers had carved new paths, vegetation had been flattened and reshaped, and the mountains seemed quieter than before. But as I walked through the nature, I realised that nature wasn't damaged—it was simply beginning again.
That feeling stayed with me while I painted. Layer by layer, I built the surface without trying to control every outcome. Some marks remained visible, others disappeared beneath new layers. Scraped-back textures, transparent washes, drips and expressive brushstrokes all became part of the painting's history.
Like the landscape itself, the painting slowly revealed its own direction. For me, After the Storm isn't about destruction. It's about transformation. It's about the quiet beauty that appears after everything has settled, when nature begins to recover and new life quietly emerges.
Rather than telling a single story, I wanted to create a painting that invites the viewer to slow down, explore its layers and discover something different each time they look at it.
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Shipping & Returns
Shipping & Returns
Free shipping included. Shipping usually takes 3 to 8 days. Double bubble wrapped inside cardboard box. Return is possible within 14 day withdrawal period, starting on the day you receive the creation.
Guaranty
Guaranty
Original work delivered with a certificate of authenticity by Kristin Kossi.
My work explores freedom in its many forms through pop culture, ambition, nature and the choices that shape the way we live. In my Pop Art, familiar characters and cultural symbols become a language for exploring success, money, love, independence and the contradictions of contemporary life. Icons such as Scrooge McDuck, Mr. Monopoly, Bugs Bunny and Homer Simpson are removed from their familiar narratives and placed into new ones sometimes humorous, sometimes provocative, but always reflecting something about the world we live in and what we choose to value. Alongside this, my abstract work has evolved through a closer connection to nature. Living and working between wild landscapes in South Africa has shifted my perspective from the symbols of success toward something more elemental — land, time, movement, solitude and the freedom that comes from living closer to nature. What connects these seemingly different bodies of work is a continuing search for freedom. Freedom to succeed. Freedom to question. Freedom to change. And ultimately, freedom to live life on your own terms. I believe art can shift perspective. For me, creativity is not only a way of making images, but a way of understanding life — and continually redefining what truly matters.