Fractures

A break changes the balance of the whole.

Straight lines and hard-edged divisions interrupt the field, shifting forms out of alignment without breaking the composition apart.

Moderated Field

Governing Line

Moderated Field is built around a broad pale centre, held between softer pinks, mauves and cooler blue-grey edges. The composition feels calm at first, but the thin dark lines and sharper fractures prevent it from ever becoming completely settled. I like the way the colour seems to soften the geometry without disguising it. The idea was to keep restraint and disruption present at the same time.

Its more pastel palette gives the work an easy presence in a bedroom, study or smaller living space, while the irregular structure keeps it from becoming merely decorative.

20x20cm on cradled wood panel, in a black float frame, ready to hang

Mixed media: acrylics, pencil, ink

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Cold Diamond

Hidden Voltage

Cold Diamond by Gera Dunachie, contemporary abstract painting in icy blue, grey, white and black with receding geometric planes, pink accents and a vertical fracture.

The composition in Cold Diamond holds its tension through receding planes and shifting depths, while the vertical crack cuts through the field and prevents the atmosphere from fully settling. It developed from a moment of internal friction — a kind of jolt that moved into the distance. I wasn’t trying to describe that feeling. I wanted to build a field cold enough to capture and hold it: a clarity of thought, but without comfort.

There is something slightly elusive about the work; the structure feels precise, but the space around it keeps slipping and reforming. It suits contemporary interiors, considered office spaces, or a curated grouping where its cooler register can hold its own without dominating.

Cold Diamond, abstract painting by Gera Dunachie in a black frame, displayed above a light wooden desk with a tablet and brass lamp in a contemporary home office.

40×40cm on cradled wood panel, in a black float frame, ready to hang

Mixed media: acrylics, pencil, ink

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Obsidian Drift

Born Under Pressure

Obsidian Drift by Gera Dunachie, contemporary abstract painting in black, deep blue and cool grey with strong directional forms and layered structural lines.

Obsidian Drift is about what remains intact under pressure: an inner spine, a directional pull, a refusal to dissolve into noise. Dark structural forms press against cooler blue-grey fields, creating a sense of movement through a landscape that feels tense but still controlled. The work sits in that suspended space where restraint becomes strength, and darkness carries structure rather than absence.

It was produced on a bespoke Auto Amor board and later sold at their exhibition at Terrace Gallery.

 

Obsidian Drift, abstract painting by Gera Dunachie, displayed above a blue console beside dried grasses and a small sculpture in a neutral interior.

30×25cm on Auto Amor board

Mixed media: acrylics, pencil,

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Red Admission

One Thing Confessed

Red Admission by Gera Dunachie, small contemporary abstract painting in cool grey and blue with angular geometric forms, a U-shaped fracture and a narrow dark pink accent.

In Red Admission, angular forms converge towards the centre, creating a strong sense of downward movement and compression. The upper part of the work is interrupted by a narrow strip of dark pink, scratched with a sharp knife. The main U-shaped fracture holds the central composition in place, allowing the surrounding fields to maintain their balance.

Small in scale but assured in presence, it suits a hallway, study or reading corner where its calm tension can be discovered gradually.

Red Admission, abstract painting by Gera Dunachie in a black frame, displayed above a marble-topped surface with an orb lamp and dark glass.

20×20cm on cradled wood panel, in a black float frame, ready to hang

Acrylics

AVAILABLE. £240. Click here to buy it from the shop

Out of True

Nothing Squares

What I love about Out of True is the rawness beneath its calm palette. Look closely and you notice scraping, sanding and scratches, revealing earlier layers and even raw panel in places. The composition feels as though the field has shifted and found a new balance: lines misalign, planes lean against one another, and nothing quite settles where you expect it to. That slight wrongness, combined with the textures, gives the work not only its tension but also its resilience.

Small in scale but with real presence, it rewards longer looking and works especially well in contemporary or mid-century interiors, on a smaller wall, above a console or as part of an eclectic grouping.

20×20cm on cradled wood panel, in a black float frame, ready to hang

Acrylics

AVAILABLE. £240. Click here to buy it from the shop

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