The Quiet Side of Ottawa 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

Original painting by Iya Carson

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

The Quiet Side of Ottawa

A hillside dissolves into granules and memory – a place neither here nor gone, caught in a breath between winter trees and fading rooftops. The land drifts like a half-spoken story, the houses perched on the edge of silence, the sky whispering in washes of grey.

It is a moment suspended – a threshold where shadows grow their own landscapes and the earth remembers every step taken toward a new home. A quiet echo of a life in transit, a vision shaped by longing, distance, and the soft ache of belonging to more than one world.