"Tear in My Heart" 2025 Oil on Canvas 50cm x 50cm 

 

A solitary face rendered in soft pink gradients is suspended between composure and collapse. A single tear falls, suggesting a quiet rupture beneath the surface rather than an outward break.

The work plays on the dual meaning of a "tear" - both emotional release and rupture - reflecting how seemingly minor, containable damage, when unresolved, can give way to something more permanent, altering the structure of what once felt intact.

The figure's stillness holds a controlled tension, resisting dramatisation. There is no gesture towards repair, only acknowledgement of what has already shifted.

Set against the intensity of the red ground, the tear becomes a point of focus and entry - where the internal and external collapse into a single visible mark, and what once felt intact is revealed as something that was breaking all along.