43 x 43 cm
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Original work delivered with a certificate of authenticity by Kristin Kossi.
Artist: 43 x 43 cm
Category: Original artwork
Product Details:
- Title: Never ever give up
- Artist: Kristin Kossi
- Year created: 2024
- Dimensions: 43 x 43 cm x 2 cm
- Style: Pop Art, Graffiti Art
- Signature: Signed by the artist on reverse
- Condition: 1/1 Original painting
- Medium: Acrylic, spray paint, marker on canvas
- Framing: Unframed original artwork on canvas, ready to hang
- Shipping: Free worldwide shipping
✔ Exclusive, one-of-a-kind piece
✔ Comes with a signed Certificate of Authenticity
About the Artwork:
Never Ever Give Up is an original mixed-media painting by contemporary artist Kristin Kossi exploring resilience, self-belief and the determination to keep moving forward when life begins to unravel.
What does it take to remain hopeful when things feel as though they are falling apart? Through a bold combination of acrylic, spray paint and sewn elements, Kossi transforms this tension between fragility and strength into a highly textured visual composition.
Vibrant color, raw surfaces and expressive marks create a sense of movement and resistance, while the message “Never Ever Give Up” becomes both statement and personal mantra. The sewn elements add another layer of meaning suggesting something torn apart, repaired and ultimately held together.
More than a message of optimism, the work reflects the courage to continue, adapt and rebuild in the face of adversity.
Never Ever Give Up is a one-of-a-kind original that brings together contemporary Pop Art, urban influences and Kossi’s recurring exploration of freedom, strength and self-determination.
Framing Suggestions
While the canvas comes un-stretched and rolled, it can be beautifully presented once framed. For collectors, the following options work particularly well:
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Natural Wood Shadow Frame: Enhances the depth and texture of the canvas, giving it a timeless, gallery-like presence.
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Matte Black Frame: Adds a sharp contrast, emphasizing the boldness of the artwork.
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Pastel Color Frame (soft pink, light blue, or mint): Creates a playful harmony with the artwork’s uplifting theme and injects subtle modern flair.
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White Floating Frame: Clean, minimal, and versatile—perfect for contemporary interiors.
Choosing the right frame allows you to tailor the artwork’s personality to your space while elevating its emotional impact.
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.