Tides of Emotions by Takwa Sabry
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Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 120 cm
Year: 2025
Price: $3000.00 USD
Status: available
Tides of Emotions Tides of Emotions is an acrylic on canvas exploring the constant movement of feelings—how they rise, overlap, collide, and slowly transform. Layers of turquoise, pink, red, yellow, and deep blue flow across the canvas through expressive brushstrokes, splashes, and long cascading drips, creating a sense of rhythm and movement. The work reflects the way emotions can feel like tides: sometimes calm and gentle, sometimes intense and overwhelming. Each colour and layer carries its own energy, coming together to create a shifting emotional landscape that is both chaotic and beautiful.
Why collect this work?
Tides of Emotions organizes exuberant colour through a pronounced downward pull, making gravity a counterforce to the painting’s crowded, expansive gestures.
- Sabry’s statement frames the wider series as an attempt to chart changing inner states. In this painting, that aim remains open-ended because no colour or mark is assigned a fixed emotion.
- The photograph shows loose turquoise passages crossed by coral, red, pink, yellow, and dark blue. Thin descending lines cut through broader strokes and splashes, while greater density near the edges makes the centre appear comparatively permeable.
- Catalogued as acrylic on canvas, the work combines broad coverage with diluted-looking runs. Acrylic can support both approaches, allowing discrete layers and gravity-led marks to occupy the same surface, though the photograph cannot confirm texture or exact colour.
- As a 2025 abstract painting, it provides a focused case for considering whether emotion can be structured without narrative or figures, using direction, overlap, and compression as its evidence.
About the Artist
Takwa Sabry
Takwa Sabry is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Painting. Based in Dubai, AE.
Takwa Sabry is a visual artist whose practice inhabits the space between emotion, memory, and identity, weaving painting, mixed media & symbolism.
