Ice cream
Oil on wood
Sjeli Pearse
2023
In this oil painting, a vanilla ice cream cone seems to hover above the canvas, glowing against a vibrantly colour background. Physiologically destined to melt and disappear, ice cream is a fleeting pleasure… usually. But preserving it in paint and exaggerating its radiance, this work elevates the temporary and ordinary to permanent and sacred, provoking thought around what we revere and why.
Ice cream
Oil on wood
Sjeli Pearse
2023
In this oil painting, a vanilla ice cream cone seems to hover above the canvas, glowing against a vibrantly colour background. Physiologically destined to melt and disappear, ice cream is a fleeting pleasure… usually. But preserving it in paint and exaggerating its radiance, this work elevates the temporary and ordinary to permanent and sacred, provoking thought around what we revere and why.
