200 x 170 cm
Where Light Settles
Where Light Settles
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Product Details:
- Title: Where Light Settles
- Artist: Kristin Kossi
- Year: 2026
- Dimensions: 200 (W) x 170 (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
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✔ Comes with a signed Certificate of Authenticity
About the artwork:
Some moments in nature cannot be captured in a photograph. They can only be felt.
Where Light Settles explores the quiet space where wilderness, light and memory become one. Layers of translucent colour, expressive brushwork and delicate oil stick markings dissolve into one another, creating a landscape that continuously shifts before the viewer's eyes. One moment it resembles a wild bloom, the next a drifting seed carried by the wind, then morning mist illuminated by the first light of day.
Created in my mountain studio in the Western Cape of South Africa, this painting reflects the profound influence that living amongst untouched wilderness has had on my artistic practice. Rather than beginning with a predetermined composition, the work evolved intuitively over many weeks, allowing each layer to guide the next until the painting gradually revealed its own identity.
The luminous central form becomes a quiet presence within the composition—fragile yet resilient, inviting contemplation rather than demanding attention. Surrounded by deep forest greens, earthy tones and subtle traces of movement, it creates a dialogue between strength and vulnerability, darkness and light.
Rather than depicting a specific place, Where Light Settles captures a feeling: the fleeting moment when sunlight filters through dense vegetation, illuminating something delicate before disappearing again.
Richly layered with acrylic and expressive oil stick, the surface continues to reveal new forms and textures over time, rewarding slow observation and inviting each collector to form a deeply personal connection with the work.
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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.