Everyway is Up

Everyway Is Up is a layered, immersive work that plays with direction, momentum, and the search for clarity within chaos. With a cooler palette of blues, whites, and greens, the piece evokes both openness and disorientation — like sky glimpsed between buildings or light bouncing through a dense canopy of movement.

Built with thick, sculptural layers of oil paint, the surface becomes almost topographical — a maze of texture and motion where paths twist, overlap, and abruptly shift. The title speaks to the tension between feeling lost and relentlessly driven; in a world without clear direction, perhaps up is the only way forward, no matter which route you take.

This painting embraces confusion as a kind of beauty — a recognition that growth often comes through disorder, and that navigation isn’t always linear. Everyway Is Up invites the viewer to get lost, to wander visually and emotionally through the work, and to consider that elevation may come not from choosing the right path, but from simply moving through it.

93x123cm

oil on canvas framed in black timber