New Works — Ana Kuni
Large Canvas · Work in Progress · 2026

The warmth of
being together.

Community canvas in situ
Studio view
Studio, WoodstockWork in progress · Mixed media on canvas · Approx. 260 × 200 cm
Detail — figures gathering
Detail — figuresGold, sienna, charcoal on canvas
Detail — solitary figure
Detail — presenceThe quality of quiet beside another

Figures gathered. Not a scene — a feeling. The warmth of proximity before words arrive. Sacred in its simplicity: the fact of being in the same room, breathing the same air, held by the same light.

This work began as a question about community — what holds people together without force. What remains when everything ceremonial is stripped away. The figures emerge from a washed-out, dreamlike field of sienna and shadow, barely there, and yet unmistakably present.

An ongoing work. The canvas still in the studio, still becoming.

This work is available — write to the studio.


Original Works · 2026

Gold as nervous system.
Earth as skin.

Four paintings made as studies of what connects — the body to the earth, the mark to the material, one form to another. Gold drawn like nerve endings against deep sienna grounds, built in layers and removed by hand before the final gesture is made.

Each work stands alone and belongs to a field. Coming together without losing what is singular about each one.

Untitled I
Untitled IMixed media on canvas · 100 × 140 cm
Untitled II
Untitled IIMixed media on canvas · 100 × 140 cm
Untitled III
Untitled IIIMixed media on canvas · 100 × 140 cm
Untitled IV
Untitled IVMixed media on canvas · 100 × 140 cm

These are original works, available individually.

Mixed media on canvas · 100 × 140 cm · Worldwide shipping
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Wearable Works

Everything
is a canvas.

The same mark that appears on canvas appears here — on cloth, on the body, in motion. It happened in the studio one afternoon and felt right, so it continued. The vocabulary is the same: gold forms, dark ground, a gesture that cannot be repeated.

Each piece is hand-painted as a singular work. What changes is the surface — and the way the work moves when worn.

Hand-painted garment in studio
Studio, 2026Hand-painted silk · One-of-a-kind
Wedding dress collaboration
Wedding dressGold botanical · Hand-painted · Collaboration
Dark silk garment
Canvas & clothThe same mark, a different surface
Artist wrapped in canvas
The skin of the workStudio, Woodstock · 2026

The skin of the painting becomes the skin of the dress. There is no separation between the work and the body that carries it.

Commissions and collaborations considered individually.

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Limited edition prints framed

Limited edition
prints.

Selected works from the studio, available as archival fine art prints and on gold metal. Each one individually hand-signed and numbered. An edition of 25 — each print a considered object, not a reproduction.

PaperHahnemühle archival, museum-grade
MetalGold aluminium, face-mounted
Edition25 per image, worldwide
SizeA3 — 297 × 420 mm
SignedBy hand, individually numbered
ShippingWorldwide from Cape Town
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