Behind The Quiet Walls FRAMED

This painting is part of the IN-BETWEEN exhibition  at the ART HOUSE CAFE GALLERY

555 Somerset Street, Ottawa, ON, Canada, on view from August 1 to August 31, 2026.

Please contact ottawavalleyartstudio@gmail.com to schedule pickup or delivery.

Original painting by Iya Carson

Certificate of Authenticity

Media: Watercolour

Paper: 100% cotton, Baohong, Rough, 300 g

Paints: Daniel Smith

Size:  15.5 x 15.5 (40 cm x 40 cm)

Year: 2025

Place: Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada

Framed, with final frame size 20.5 x 20.5 x 2.5 (52 x 52 x6.5 cm), double matting black/white

Behind The Quite Walls

A hidden staircase rises from the shadows, an unlikely path carved behind the city’s louder face.
Light spills in from the right, not a sunbeam, but an opening, a quiet permission to leave the narrowness behind.

The buildings lean inward, their weight pressing into the dim corridor, yet the steps climb steadily, stubbornly, toward a pair of distant lamps glowing like small promises.

Here, in this forgotten corner, the city reveals its softer pulse, a place neither fully seen nor truly secret, a hinge between movement and stillness.
It is the architecture of the in-between: where shadows create direction, where steps become stories, and where every ascent feels like crossing from one life into another.