On The Forest Edge 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: 2026

Place: Ottawa Valley, Ontario, Canada

On The Forest Edge
From the In-between series

Sometimes home is not a place you arrive at.

Sometimes it is a moment when the world grows still enough for you to hear yourselves again.

You stand between the sleeping field and the waiting forest. Behind them lie familiar footprints already softened by snow. Ahead, the trees keep their ancient secrets beneath white branches.

Nothing remarkable happens.

No dramatic light breaks through the clouds.
No destination appears.

Only the quiet certainty that there is no need to hurry.

The forest does not ask who you have been.
The snow does not remember your mistakes.

For a brief moment, standing on the edge of wilderness, you belong equally to both worlds, the one you have left behind and the one you have not yet entered.

Perhaps that is where peace has always been waiting.