Root Memory by Raya Mansoor
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Medium: Oil and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 82 x 127 cm
Year: 2026
Price: $1920.00 USD
Status: available
A landscape that feels familiar. Something in it knows you. ______ Avi by Raya Mansoor is a series born from the warmth of the islands, where the sun touches everything: the ocean, the land, and the people who call it home. It is about life lived under that constant light, felt in quiet mornings, in the movement of the sea, and in the golden hours that bring each day to a close. It is about all that it creates. The shifting colours of the water, the bursts of blooms and hidden life, and the memories of growing up in its glow.
Why collect this work?
Root Memory compresses oversized foliage around a central orange disc, turning a botanical scene into a contest between enclosure and radiance.
- Mansoor describes her painting as intuitive, process-led, and shaped by natural change and emotion. Here, that account helps explain the accumulation of overlapping, differently directed forms.
- In the photograph, leaves and pink-edged blooms rise from every side, partly masking the orange circle. Cream, burgundy, and blue zones interrupt any continuous landscape, keeping fruit, sun, and backdrop unresolved.
- Catalogued as oil and acrylic on canvas, the painting combines broad background fields with emphatic colour transitions. The photograph cannot establish its surface texture or exact hues.
- At 82 by 127 cm, this 2026 work gives botanical abundance a bodily scale. The catalogue places it within Avi, a series described through island light and memories, making compression rather than descriptive geography its significant strategy.
About the Artist
Raya Mansoor
Raya Mansoor is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Painting. Based in Malé, MV.
Nationality: Maldivian
I work with color and form as a way of exploring movement, memory, and place.
