Sketch for SILENCE I - THE HELD BREATH I've been thinking about abstract art lately. A lot of people say: "I don't understand it." As if there's something to solve. A code to crack. A meaning hidden that only critics know. But here's the thing: Abstract art is like listening to music in a language you don't speak. You don't understand the words. But it moves you anyway. The melody doesn't need translation. The rhythm doesn't need explanation. You just... feel it. That's what abstraction is. Not a puzzle. Not a test. Just color, form, and the space between them — speaking directly to something that doesn't need words. You don't need to "get it." You just need to let it in. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

From the paintings I share, you wouldn’t think so — but I’ve failed more times than I can count. Ugly paintings. Wrong colors. Dead compositions. But every failure taught me something success never could. Success tells you: "Keep doing this." Failure tells you: "Try another way." That's why I keep painting things I don't yet know how to do. Because failure is the only teacher that doesn't lie. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

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THE FADING GLOW The lingering brightness. Fragile yet persistent. A flame unwilling to yield to the dark. The third of SILENCE AMONG THE CLOUDS. That moment when the light doesn't go suddenly — it lingers. Fades. But doesn't disappear quietly. It insists, for just a little longer. This is the silence of resistance. Gentle, but stubborn. 20×20cm, oil on cradled wood panel Available now: 180,000 sats (shipping included) 🔗

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This is the most ambitious thing I've ever attempted. 16 paintings. 4 months of thinking. One question. View quoted note →

I remember it well. The first zap I received for a painting was 210 sats. It wasn't the price I was asking. It was a gesture. Someone, on the other side of the world, had seen something that spoke to them. I didn't sell that painting, but I understood something: The value of art isn't in the price. It's in the moment someone stops, looks, and feels something move inside. Everything else — sales, collections, exhibitions — is just consequence. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

My home is full of paintings. Everywhere. Some have been in my studio for months. Others for a year, or two, or more. I don’t sell them because they’re not meant for anyone yet. I keep them because they haven’t found their person yet. Art isn’t a product on a shelf. It’s a conversation waiting to begin. There’s one painting I look at every morning. I know that someone, somewhere, is waiting for exactly that sky, that light. They won’t find it by searching “art to buy.” They’ll find it when they stop and think: “I know this.” All I can do is wait for that moment to arrive. And when it does, it’s not a sale. It’s a recognition. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

THE WAITING THUNDER The silent tension. The suspended breath of what is about to arrive. The second of SILENCE AMONG THE CLOUDS. Not the thunder itself — but the waiting. The moment before. When the air holds everything and releases nothing. Sometimes silence isn't the absence of sound. It's the presence of what hasn't happened yet. 20×20cm, oil on cradled wood panel Available now: 180,000 sats (shipping included) 🔗

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The moment colors wake up. View quoted note → SILENCE AMONG THE FLOWERS — just varnished, ready to ship. Four paintings about fragility and bloom. Available as a complete quartet. 🔗

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Today, protective varnish on SILENCE AMONG THE FLOWERS. This is the moment I wait for — when the colors wake up. The varnish doesn't add anything. It just reveals what was already there, hidden under the matte surface. Blues become deeper. Reds pulse. Yellows glow. These four have been drying for three weeks since I finished them in late September. Now they're sealed, protected, ready. SILENCE AMONG THE FLOWERS — the second movement of the larger project. Four paintings about fragility. About bloom and fade. About the silence held inside petals before they fall. 20×20cm each, oil on cradled wood panel. Available as a complete quartet. 🔗

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Someone asked me yesterday: “When did you become a painter?” I said: “April 2022 — I only lost thirty years from when I already was.” Sometimes we don’t become. We return. View quoted note →

Let me tell you something you may not know: I gave up painting for almost thirty years and only recently picked up my brushes again. Was April 2022 when I start again. I painted a portrait of my wife. I told myself: "If this works, I'll return to painting. If not, I'll walk away forever." It wasn't perfect. But it was enough. For years I'd worked as a graphic designer. I'd let art fade — the way you let something precious die: without a reason. But art didn't abandon me. It waited. That portrait reopened a door. And since then, I haven't stopped. Sometimes you don't need a grand moment. You just need to decide to try one more time. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

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