Cathedral of Soft Light 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.

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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

Ukrainian Orthodox Cathedral — Assumption of the Blessed Virgin, Baron Street, Ottawa
From the In-Between Series

Here, the cathedral rises like a half-remembered blessing, its domes dissolving into the pale hush of morning light. Nothing is fixed; everything is felt. Trees soften into silhouettes, façades blur into memory, and the street becomes a quiet threshold between the known and the dreamlike.

Granulated shadows drift across the pavement like echoes of footsteps long faded, while delicate washes of light pull the gaze upward toward the faint gleam of the crosses. The scene breathes with reverence – subtle, lingering, almost whispered.

This is not simply a street view, but a moment suspended between presence and remembrance, where the cathedral stands not only as architecture, but as a vessel of stillness, faith, and the fragile beauty of places that hold our inner silence.