“The Way Back Home”, 2026

Iryna Tymovchak  

The Way Back Home
From the series “Where We Belong"

Medium: Acrylic on canvas;
Size: (Unstretched): 106× 100cm;
(When mounted on a stretcher frame): 96 × 90 × 2 cm;
Presentation: Stretched on a wooden stretcher, ready to hang.

The painting depicts two figures walking together along a sunlit path, surrounded by a quiet, dreamlike landscape. Their movement becomes a metaphor for returning — not necessarily to a physical place, but to a feeling of belonging, connection, and inner safety.

The landscape is intentionally fluid and atmospheric, moving between recognizable forms and abstraction. Through layered brushwork, translucent passages, expressive marks, and vertical drips, I allow the image to remain in a state of transition, where memory and present experience overlap.

The warm, almost glowing light transforms the path into a space of emotional memory. The figures are not defined by individual identity; instead, their closeness and shared movement become the central focus. They suggest the universal experience of finding one's way back to what feels familiar, meaningful, and deeply one's own.

The Way Back Home is about belonging as an inner state — a sense of home that we carry within us, and sometimes find again through another person, a shared memory, or simply the act of moving forward together.