Ashvin Harrison, Nocturne Butterflies, coconut charcoal dust and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches. A grey charcoal-drawn arm and hand holding open a green champagne bottle with a label of handwritten sheet music, as a spray of turquoise, gold, peach and black paint splatters bursts from the neck carrying three orange monarch butterflies across a white background.
Ashvin Harrison, Nocturne Butterflies, coconut charcoal dust and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, shown in a natural wood frame hanging in a cream entryway above a light wood sideboard with a coral sculpture and black vase, under a drum pendant light with a red patterned rug below.
Ashvin Harrison, Nocturne Butterflies, coconut charcoal dust and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, shown in a white floating frame on a light grey wall.
Detail of Ashvin Harrison, Nocturne Butterflies, coconut charcoal dust and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches. Close-up of a grey charcoal arm and hand gripping a green champagne bottle, its cream label covered in handwritten musical notation with the title Nocturne Butterflies.
Ashvin Harrison, Nocturne Butterflies, coconut charcoal dust and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches. A grey charcoal-drawn arm and hand holding open a green champagne bottle with a label of handwritten sheet music, as a spray of turquoise, gold, peach and black paint splatters bursts from the neck carrying three orange monarch butterflies across a white background.
Ashvin Harrison, Nocturne Butterflies, coconut charcoal dust and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, shown in a natural wood frame hanging in a cream entryway above a light wood sideboard with a coral sculpture and black vase, under a drum pendant light with a red patterned rug below.
Ashvin Harrison, Nocturne Butterflies, coconut charcoal dust and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches, shown in a white floating frame on a light grey wall.
Detail of Ashvin Harrison, Nocturne Butterflies, coconut charcoal dust and acrylic on canvas, 36 x 36 inches. Close-up of a grey charcoal arm and hand gripping a green champagne bottle, its cream label covered in handwritten musical notation with the title Nocturne Butterflies.
Ashvin Harrison

Nocturne Butterflies by artist Ashvin Harrison

  • Nocturne Butterflies 
  • Ashvin Harrison (Australia)
  • Coconut charcoal dust and acrylic on canvas
  • Size: 36"H x 36"W
  • Custom framing available upon request

Nocturne Butterflies captures the fleeting beauty of celebration, love and the moments we wish could last longer. A champagne bottle bursts open with an extraordinary release of turquoise, gold, orange and expressive colour, carrying monarch butterflies outward as symbols of freedom, transformation and the precious impermanence of life. Hidden within the dark silhouette of the bottle, two figures lean toward one another, suspended in the intimate moment just before a kiss.

Adding another layer to the work is a hand-drawn musical score inspired by Chopin, delicately written in pencil across the bottle's label. Music, romance and butterflies become intertwined metaphors for experiences that cannot be physically held, only felt, remembered and revisited. Created in Harrison's Motus-realism style, hand painted coconut charcoal dust meets spontaneous acrylic and oil abstraction, transforming the opening of a bottle into a celebration of being alive.

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