VANTA - Telluric

“Telluric” (2026)
Oil pastels on canvas
130 x 100 cm
Against a stark white ground, a human form surfaces through accumulating abstract lines - loose, crossing, seemingly incidental yet collectively resolute. The figure does not announce itself through outline or intention but arrives gradually, the marks building a presence that becomes legible only in aggregate. Fields of red and yellow interrupt the white at intervals, their edges rough and unconsidered, the color sitting flat against the ground while the linear figure moves across and through them without deference to where one ends and another begins.
VANTA works here with the directness that pastels demand - marks that cannot be taken back, each line carrying the full commitment of its gesture. Represented by S-Gallery and available on Catawiki. The white ground remains dominant throughout, its brightness refusing to recede, keeping the figure and the color fields suspended on the surface rather than sinking into any sense of depth or atmosphere.
What emerges is neither fully abstract nor fully figured - a human form that the marks approach from multiple directions simultaneously, arriving at presence through accumulation rather than declaration.
Shipping:
The work is delivered without a frame (professional packaging, rolled in a tube). it can easily be restretched by a professional or on your own, this is also cheaper then the otherwise increased cost of shipping when sending paintings of this size stretched
The measurements indicated are those of the painting stretched and mounted on a frame (The actual
measurements of the canvas are larger to allow it to be mounted on a frame 2-4cm thick.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​