Night Holds Still
Oil on Canvas
24x36in
$1,210
Framing
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Chantelle Stean
United Kingdom
Artist highlights
- Featured in gallery curations
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Artwork details
- Medium : Oil on Canvas
- Other details : Artwork on cardboard. Framing on request.
- Dimensions : 22x18.1in
About this artwork
The sea pauses explores stillness as a state of tension rather than absence. A low, softened horizon separates deep, reflective water from a sky thick with diffused light and layered cloud, allowing atmosphere to carry the weight of the composition.
The palette is restrained and cool, built from blues, greys, and muted violets that shift subtly across the surface. Smooth, horizontal passages in the water contrast with the softened, drifting forms… above, creating a sense of slow movement and quiet suspension.
This work sits between abstraction and seascape, inviting contemplation rather than narrative. It reflects on moments when weather, light, and water seem to hold their breath—poised, balanced, and unresolved.
The palette is restrained and cool, built from blues, greys, and muted violets that shift subtly across the surface. Smooth, horizontal passages in the water contrast with the softened, drifting forms… above, creating a sense of slow movement and quiet suspension.
This work sits between abstraction and seascape, inviting contemplation rather than narrative. It reflects on moments when weather, light, and water seem to hold their breath—poised, balanced, and unresolved.
Chantelle Stean
United Kingdom
Credentials
- Featured in gallery curations
My work is a continual search for light — not only the light we see, but the light we feel.
Over time, my paintings have moved from the tighter, more structured handling of my earlier figurative work toward something looser and more atmospheric — softer edges, layered colour, and a greater focus on mood and light than on fine detail. Each collection has been a step in that journey.
I am drawn to those fleeting moments where darkness gives way — the glow beyond a storm, the last warmth of a fading sky, the quiet energy held within colour itself. Through layers, texture, and transparency, I chase that fragile meeting place between shadow and illumination. Each painting leads me a little closer to capturing not just a scene, but its atmosphere, memory and light.
Over time, my paintings have moved from the tighter, more structured handling of my earlier figurative work toward something looser and more atmospheric — softer edges, layered colour, and a greater focus on mood and light than on fine detail. Each collection has been a step in that journey.
I am drawn to those fleeting moments where darkness gives way — the glow beyond a storm, the last warmth of a fading sky, the quiet energy held within colour itself. Through layers, texture, and transparency, I chase that fragile meeting place between shadow and illumination. Each painting leads me a little closer to capturing not just a scene, but its atmosphere, memory and light.
Chantelle Stean
The Sea Pauses
$610
