Stranded
Gausden's interactive landscapes and intimate figurative works are inspired by social media content and influenced by photographic techniques. Gausden's works have smooth surfaces with impasto elements and white sides, the canvases are ready to hang framed or unframed.
About this work the artist says:
"This painting was from beach just East of Sooke, where I was visiting friends during a difficult period in their lives. As we sat around a campfire, one of them came back from the water carrying his young son. He was soaked up to the knees. He had dipped the boy’s toes into the ocean for the very first time, wanting to share that elemental meeting. It was a profoundly tender gesture, one that fused the physical place with an enduring emotional resonance." - Mel Gausden, 2025
