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Thin Smoke: Semi-Abstract Acrylic Artwork in Deep Teal, Coral Red, and Blush, 2025
Polina Iamshell  

Painting : acrylic, pencil · 57 x 51 x 0.1 cm 22.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch

$600 600 $US
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed

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57 x 51 x 0.1 cm 22.4 x 20.1 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth

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Thin Smoke: Contemporary Semi-Abstract Acrylic and Pencil Artwork

Invite expressive contemporary abstract art into a considered interior with "Thin Smoke" (51 x 57 cm / 20.1 x 22.4 in). Acrylic on canvas and pencil build an active field of translucent coral, dusty blush, deep teal, charcoal, muted gold, and white. Sweeping red arcs travel across the composition while fluid dark shapes and faint linear details appear, overlap, and recede. The image feels light-filled yet emotionally charged, rewarding attention through its changes in density, transparency, and rhythm.

The artwork draws on the idea of thin smoke coming from an inner fire. That fire can be helpful when it feeds imagination and creative energy, yet dangerous when it becomes too strong. This tension is carried through the work's gentle washes and forceful interruptions, allowing the viewer to sense both vulnerability and momentum without a fixed subject. It is an original semi-abstract artwork with a distinctly personal, intuitive character.

Ideal for a collector seeking a refined focal point, it works beautifully in a modern living room, calm bedroom, office, or studio. The nuanced palette pairs naturally with pale walls, wood, metal, and contemporary furnishings, while making a thoughtful art gift for a lover of expressive abstraction.

The total canvas size, including borders, is 74x67 см. The artwork will be shipped without a stretcher frame, rolled in a cardboard tube for safe transportation.

Abstract

Colors

Abstract expressionism

Lines

Red

Polina Iamshell, Thin Smoke: Semi-Abstract Acrylic Artwork in Deep Teal, Coral Red, and Blush
United States  • 1977

Presentation

Iamshell is a contemporary artist and singer-songwriter. Her work has been presented internationally, including World Art Dubai (2024) and exhibitions at Art Point Dubai, Dubai International Art Center, Reem Art Gallery, and Picasso Gallery. In 2025, Picasso Gallery presented her solo exhibition in Dubai. She received the Best Expressionist Artist award at the Artistic Luminary Awards in Dubai in 2024, and her painting Bull was featured in Gulf News the same year.

Iamshell works primarily in acrylic, creating vibrant abstract paintings shaped by her parallel practice in music. Trained as a vocalist and active as a singer-songwriter, she approaches painting through rhythm, improvisation, and emotional response. Ideas are allowed to develop intuitively on the canvas, much as sound and feeling unfold through music.

Bold color, energetic gestures, and light, spontaneous marks define her visual language. Rather than using abstraction to describe specific subjects, Iamshell treats it as a way to express sensations that resist verbal explanation.

At the center of her practice is an intentionally affirmative view of life. Her paintings explore joy, playfulness, freedom, and presence, translating the emotional energy of music into color and movement. She seeks to create works that do not simply represent optimism, but make it physically felt through rhythm, color, and gesture.

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