Patricia Gagic Sincerely 1 What We Carry Contemplating The Next Journey 40×30
Sincerely 1 — What We Carry Contemplating The Next Journey by Patricia Karen Gagic is an original oil on canvas measuring 40″ high × 30″ wide, the opening work of her Sincerely series — paintings composed like signed letters, each one closing an unspoken message. The first letter is about weight. At the centre of a dusk-stilled sea rides a dark, bundled mass — everything carried, strapped and creased — resting on a slab of white light like a raft. The journey has not started yet. This is the pause before it.
Original Abstract Oil Painting by Patricia Karen Gagic
The sky is a long meditation of lavender and violet-grey, thinning to a pale glow at the horizon. The sea beneath is deep slate-green, brushed in slow lateral currents that gather toward the centre. There the cargo sits: crumpled, rock-like folds of black-green paint, as physical as anything in Gagic’s 2026 collection, edged in bronze and sepia where old light catches it. Out of the bundle rise thin, wiry black lines — loops and stems drawn in single confident passes — like thoughts escaping, or the strings that once held everything together. A small note of red waits at the far right edge; the artist’s red signature answers it at the lower left.
Colour, Texture, and Technique
The palette is built on lavender, violet-grey, and slate green, weighted by black-green and sepia-bronze and lit by a white central slab with small red accents. Gagic sets soft, blended atmosphere against sharply sculptural impasto — the central mass is heavily worked, creased and scraped — and finishes with fine calligraphic line work laid over the top. A satiny surface lets the darks read as depth rather than gloom.
Where This Artwork Works Best
At 40″ × 30″, this is a painting for rooms where people actually pause — a study, a reading corner, a bedroom, a quiet office. Its dusk palette settles beautifully against grey, cream, and deep green walls, and it holds its own beside books, leather, and low warm light. For a collector of Canadian contemporary abstraction, it is the most contemplative work in the collection — and the beginning of the Sincerely story.
Artwork Details
- Artist: Patricia Karen Gagic
- Title: Sincerely 1 — What We Carry Contemplating The Next Journey
- Medium: Oil on Canvas
- Size: 40″ h × 30″ w
- Subject: Abstracts
- Style: Contemporary Abstract, Contemplative, Impasto with Line Work
- Art Category: Original Painting
- Framing: Framed with Artist Frame (slim black float frame)
Care and Display
Dust gently with a soft, dry microfiber cloth. Avoid abrasive cleaners, prolonged direct sunlight, and areas of extreme humidity so the layered oil surface retains its depth and finish.
Framing and Shipping
This painting arrives finished in a slim black float frame, ready to hang. Professional packing, crating, local pickup, and shipping options are available — contact the gallery to arrange delivery or a virtual placement preview on your own wall.
