Title: Shifting Horizons
Year of Creation: 2024
Medium: Acrylic on Canvas
Dimensions: 48 inches x 60 inches
Sale Price: $4,800 USD
Edition Type: Unique, 1 of 1
Current Location: New York, NY, USA
Description:
Shifting Horizons immerses viewers in the timeless expanse of the Egyptian desert, where the ancient and the modern collide in a dance of texture, color, and spontaneity. Inspired by the journey of a camel beneath the towering pyramids, the painting explores both the quiet endurance and sudden movements that define life in the desert. Keatley’s brushstrokes echo the unpredictability of the landscape, where wind shifts, sand swirls, and animals navigate with instinctive, spontaneous grace.
The windswept hues and splatters of orange evoke the desert’s unrestrained energy, capturing both the vast silence and the moments of sudden activity that disrupt it. Keatley’s abstract approach emphasizes the unexpected beauty of nature in motion, encouraging reflection on the passage of time and the resilience that arises in such unpredictable environments.
Shifting Horizons invites viewers to experience both the stillness and the bursts of life within these ancient landscapes, where each moment of interaction between creature and environment is spontaneous, brief, and beautiful.