At Your Shore

Haleh Mashian

72 x 72″

Mixed media on canvas

Haleh Mashian’s “At Your Shore” is an evocative mixed-media masterpiece that blurs the boundaries between painting and sculpture, immersing the viewer in a sensory experience that captures the ocean’s movement and energy. With its textural richness and layered depth, the work feels as though the tides themselves have been suspended in time—fluid, powerful, and endlessly mesmerizing.

Mashian’s mastery of materiality shines through in the interplay of shimmering blues, iridescent greens, and frothy whites, which dance across the canvas in a dynamic symphony of light and motion. The artist does not merely depict the sea—she reconstructs its essence, inviting the viewer to feel the undulating force of waves as they surge toward the shore.

Beneath the painting’s surface lies a delicate tension between serenity and turbulence, between the mystery of the deep and the comforting embrace of the land. The meticulously layered textures create an almost sculptural relief, enhancing the dimensionality of the piece and emphasizing the tactile quality of the medium. At the lower portion, where water meets sand, the composition glistens with a granular iridescence, capturing the ephemeral beauty of receding tides.