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Closer To Something Real series 
 

For inquires contact: Mckenna.shanholtz@gmail.com

A series of 6 paintings exploring color, texture, and movement across raw canvas. Inspired by paying closer attention to what feels alive: in nature, in movement, in the quiet shift that happens when you slow down enough to notice it.

 

At its core, this series is about returning — not to who you were, but to what exists underneath all the ways you’ve learned to hold yourself together.

 

Raw canvas becomes part of that language. Exposed. Unfinished. Honest. Color behaves less like control and more like memory — something that moves, seeps, and settles on its own terms.

 

It’s not about arrival. It’s about re-entering the process of becoming.

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Each artwork is personally signed and dated and includes a certificateof authenticity verifying its originality. 

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Exhale.

Acrylic and oil on raw canvas

16" x 20"

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Hold on, Let go.

Acrylic and oil on raw canvas

16" x 20"

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All We Have Is Now.

Acrylic and oil on raw canvas

16" x 20"

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Until We Meet Again.

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It's Only Love.

Acrylic and oil on raw canvas

16" x 20"

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Never Lost, Only Becoming.

Acrylic and oil on raw canvas

16" x 20"

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