"Sea-Kin - In the Wake of the Ancestors", Fine Art Matte Canvas, Stretched, 1.25"

In Sea-Kin – In the Wake of the Ancestors, the ocean doesn’t appear as waves on a horizon so much as a vast spiral seen from above. At a distance you read a single, sweeping gyre: deep indigo and slate-blue arcs circling a molten heart of gold, as if you’re looking down into a whirlpool of light. Step closer and that gyre breaks apart into plates and scales – cracked metallic gold, ember orange, and weathered blues – with edges that feel like old leather, hammered metal, or sun-dried turtle shell. The surface is richly textured, carrying the sense that salt, wind, and years have already worked on it.

The title points to the sea-roads that bound together the Hebrides, the west of Scotland, the coasts of Ireland, and the northern waters beyond. The central spiral can be read as a shell, a wake, or a map of currents; its coils hint at both a storm eddy and a strand of DNA. Gold and orange passages evoke firelight on the hulls of longboats or lanterns on a night crossing, while the darker blues suggest deep channels and unknown depths. Rather than illustrating ships or figures directly, the piece lets the ocean itself carry the story of ancestry – a sense that the routes our forebears sailed are still written into the water and, by extension, into us.

Stylistically, this is a contemporary abstract with strong expressionist and maritime undertones. The composition is built from overlapping, scale-like bands that curl inwards, each one cross-hatched with fine crackle and micro-texture. Colour moves from a heated red-gold headland on the left into the bright metal of the spiral and then out into cooler teal and midnight blues, giving the eye a clear path to follow without a single literal line. Up close, every segment has its own pattern of fissures and tones; from across the room, they fuse into a single, luminous ocean spiral that feels both ancient and modern.

With its wide 3:1 panoramic format, Sea-Kin – In the Wake of the Ancestors is designed for long walls and horizontal sightlines: above a sofa or sideboard, along a corridor, in a study or library, or in an office reception where you want something sophisticated and quietly magnetic. It sits naturally in interiors that mix timber, stone, leather, and linen – coastal homes, modern apartments, or boutique hotels that want a nautical reference without resorting to obvious seaside motifs. For anyone who feels the pull of the sea or a deep curiosity about where their people came from, it offers a contemplative statement piece that invites you to stand still and trace the spiral’s path again and again.

Canvas & Materials

• Premium matte canvas on a 1.25" (3.2 cm) gallery-style stretcher

• Cotton–polyester composite canvas for a fine, painterly surface with excellent colour retention

• Inner frame made from radiata pine sourced from renewable forests

• Soft rubber dots on the back corners to protect walls and keep the canvas stable

• Hanging hardware included so the piece arrives ready to place and live with

• Please allow for slight size variation (± 1/8" / 3.2 mm) due to the handcrafted production process

Original Artwork by Abstract Artist Archie Kilmor.

EU representative: Not Hunters Art, nothuntersart.usa@gmail.com, 16 Springvale Street, Gold Coast, QLD, 4226, AU

Product information: Generic brand, 2 year warranty in EU and Northern Ireland as per Directive 1999/44/EC

Care instructions: If the canvas does gather any dust, you may wipe it off gently with a clean, damp cloth.