Solace Break

Aurora: A Series by Gina Keatley

Solace Break (Six-Panel Set)

  • Year of Creation: 2025
  • Medium: Acrylic
  • Dimensions: 48 inches x 24 inches each (288 inches x 24 inches combined)
  • Sale Price: $14,600 USD
  • Edition Type: Unique, 1 of 1
  • Current Location: New York, NY, USA

At the center of the series is Solace Break, a commanding six-panel composition (48x24 inches per panel) that unfolds like an unbroken horizon. Here, Keatley’s textural interplay creates a rhythmic dialogue between depth and diffusion, evoking the layered experience of witnessing the first light stretch across the earth. The interplay of warmth and restraint in this piece anchors the series, inviting contemplation on impermanence and renewal.
At the center of the series is Solace Break, a commanding six-panel composition (48x24 inches per panel) that unfolds like an unbroken horizon. Here, Keatley’s textural interplay creates a rhythmic dialogue between depth and diffusion, evoking the layered experience of witnessing the first light stretch across the earth. The interplay of warmth and restraint in this piece anchors the series, inviting contemplation on impermanence and renewal.

A commanding presence within Aurora, Solace Break stretches across six monumental panels, forming an unbroken horizon of light, texture, and movement. Keatley’s masterful layering of warm ochres, soft blush tones, and muted grays creates a sense of quiet vastness—an immersive meditation on the ephemeral beauty of dawn.

At the heart of the composition lies a delicate tension: the balance between stillness and motion, permanence and impermanence. Using her Halo Accents, Keatley introduces organic dots that emerge like scattered embers, guiding the eye through the vast expanse of the piece. Meanwhile, the Rainfall Drip Technique cascades fine speckled marks across the panels, evoking mist dissolving in the first breath of morning. Each stroke, each layered hue, contributes to the illusion of time in flux—an unfolding, shifting sky where light is never static.

Unlike a traditional sunrise painting, Solace Break does not capture a single moment. Instead, it invites the viewer to experience dawn as a continuum—an evolving interplay of light and texture. The modularity of the six panels adds to this effect, allowing the composition to be perceived as both a singular entity and a sequence of shifting perspectives.

Keatley’s restrained yet expressive use of texture enhances this interplay. Subtle fissures and delicate abrasions across the surface hint at the quiet erosion of time, while diffuse layers of pigment mimic the soft diffusion of light against atmosphere. The result is a work that feels both intimate and expansive, where the act of looking becomes an act of witnessing.

A testament to Keatley’s evolving approach to abstraction, Solace Break embodies the philosophy that light is not simply seen—it is felt. It is a painting not of sunrise, but of its presence, its passage, and the quiet inevitability of change.