Garden of the Soul is a multidimensional mixed-media work combining oil, acrylic, textile, and tint on canvas. The composition merges figuration and sculptural surface, transforming the painted image into a tactile, immersive environment.
The female figure emerges in quiet profile, her form grounded in softness while golden branches extend outward from her head like living thoughts or memory-lines. The branches do not merely decorate — they root the mind in nature, suggesting that growth begins within.
The draped textile elements expand beyond illusionistic painting into physical structure. The gathered fabric becomes both garment and terrain — a landscape of folds that captures light and shadow, emphasizing vulnerability, embodiment, and presence.
A white dove moves through the space as a symbol not of escape, but of release. It suggests transition rather than departure — a moment suspended between containment and expansion.
Material layering is central to the work’s meaning. The integration of textile within painted surface dissolves boundaries between body and environment, surface and depth, image and object. The piece exists between painting and relief, inviting close viewing and physical awareness.
Within contemporary discourse on feminine identity and inner ecology, Garden of the Soul proposes growth as an intimate, organic process — one that unfolds quietly, branch by branch.
Original artwork by <!--td {border: 1px solid #cccccc;}br {mso-data-placement:same-cell;}-->Anastasya Lyulina
31 ½ x 39 ½ | 80 x 100 cm
Oil, acrylic, textile, tint, canvas
