SOLD Where Somerset Breathes

This painting has found its home in a private collection.

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

Where Somerset Breathes
From the In-between series

A familiar street dissolves into mist, its edges softened like a memory still forming.
Somerset Street, always bustling, always alive, here becomes a breath between moments.
Shadows slip through the light, buildings lean inward as if listening, and the city hum fades into a quiet heartbeat.

This is where Ottawa’s Chinatown keeps its small-city soul, a place of cafés and markets, of everyday stories carried in the air. In this in-between pause, the street is not loud or busy, but suspended, tender, a pathway made of echoes and light.