Danielle O'Connor Akiyama | Falling... Falling Into Your Grace St Edwards Crown and visual artists frequently crossed

and visual artists frequently crossed paths in the same studios

yellow and sharp-scented

Hand embellished giclée on canvas

Future Leader (Pink)

Darkness Fell

Danielle O'Connor Akiyama | Falling... Falling Into Your Grace St Edwards Crown and visual artists frequently crossedDanielle O'Connor Akiyama Falling Falling Into Your Grace Original oil painting The title proposes a state of surrender the moment of falling as grace rather than loss, descent as a form of arrival. O'Connor Akiyama's oil paintings consistently work in this territory: the threshold between states, the moment before resolution, the space between the physical and the felt. Her surfaces are built with the patience that oil paint demands and rewards,