910 x 910mm (canvas size) original painting by Marcia Priestley. Acrylic on canvas. Box Framed In Oak
"Mirage" is a pastel-toned hallucination—loose, gestural, and pulsing with dream logic. Figures emerge and dissolve in motion: an acrobat suspended mid-flip, a swan grazes the surface, a heavy-footed rhino anchoring the scene. A sloth drifts slow and surreal, while a stork cuts through the haze with quiet focus.
Above and between them, cherubs hover—not just sweet symbols, but forces of connection. They pull the strings, thread the moment together, and hold this strange cast in delicate balance. Every character—odd, wild, soft, or strong—belongs here. That’s the mirage: difference in unity, chaos in grace, the tension between movement and stillness.
"Mirage" is less a painting and more a portal—a fleeting vision of love, weight, and wonder spun together like it could all disappear if you blink too hard.
Australian Artist, Marcia Priestley’ evokes an alluring narrative fluent with emotion using acrylic and mixed media application. Creating serene viewings, lyrical tones are sculptured and composed from longitudinal arrangements or pattern formation creating movement, body, texture & difference.
Tempering romanticism, realism, simplicity and energy, life is captured in her creative process often occurring with spirited meaning, shaping her symbolic and harmonious style.
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