Bronze Sculpture for Sale
When the Town Sleeps, 2025
Fine Art Drawings : acrylic · 30 x 30 x 0.1 cm 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch
€229
229 €
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Shipped from: Montenegro
Delivery to: France , € 36
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Fine Art Drawings : Unique artwork
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, not framed
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Dimensions ( cm • inch )
30 x 30 x 0.1 cm 11.8 x 11.8 x 0 inch Height x Width x Depth
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"When the Town Sleeps" – Contemporary Acrylic Artwork, Urban Dreamscape, 30x30cm
The black night sky swallows the space, while the cool blue and white tones of the road enhance the sense of movement and inner tension. Yellow and pink accents around it add a lively pulse, as if the city continues to breathe even when silence falls.
There are no random details here — every color contrast emphasizes the idea of a path that cannot be stopped. The road becomes a metaphor for choice, a moment when a person has already taken a step but has not yet seen the final destination. Light areas suggest hope, dark areas convey the anxiety of the unknown, and the architecture on the horizon hints at the sense of an endpoint where something important may occur.
The artist was inspired by nighttime walks, when the familiar world changes, gains new proportions, shadows lengthen, and colors deepen. In such moments, even a simple urban landscape transforms into a space of meanings: one only needs to pause and look closely to realize that silence, too, has its voice.
— The painting is coated with a protective varnish that shields it from UV rays and dust. It is signed and dated by the artist.
The artwork is shipped rolled in a tube.
Presentation
Nora Shade (Elena Khalturina, b. 1983, Mykolaiv, Ukraine) is a contemporary painter whose work explores the intersections of memory, time, and perception. With an academic background in pedagogy and psychology, she came to painting intuitively; through literature, an innate sensitivity to color, and countless experiments with paint. Her artistic journey evolved as a deeply personal study of how emotion, space, and color interact to shape the viewer's inner experience.
Now based in Budva, Montenegro, Nora Shade is actively developing several ongoing series for upcoming exhibitions in Ukraine and the United States. Her creative approach is defined by layered surfaces, nuanced color transitions, and a contemplative rhythm that evokes both dreamlike stillness and quiet motion. By blending the visible and the remembered, the old and the new, her works become visual meditations on transience and presence.
For Shade, each painting is not a depiction of a specific place but a space of emotional resonance - a landscape of feeling rather than geography. Through overlapping tones and transparent layers, she builds atmospheres that seem to hover between reality and imagination. Her compositions invite the viewer to drift through distant and near planes, to pause within color itself, and to sense the subtle dialogue between light and time.
In her own words, “Layers of paint and transitions of color help me express not only visible forms but also the mood of space. The past seems to emerge into the present, to remain."
Through her art, Nora Shade creates quiet worlds of reflection—where every brushstroke becomes an echo of memory, and every color holds the possibility of stillness, presence, and return.
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