A Dance with the Depths 10

In Holdings of Light, artist Brittany Ferns explores the quiet yearning for warmth, balance, and connection during the colder, slower seasons. Through suns, moons, and human figures, her paintings evoke gentle guardianship and the rhythms of the natural world, drawing on the echoes of folk tales that celebrate the bond between people, the earth, and the cycles that sustain us. Each composition offers a contemplative space where light and presence are both sought and cherished.

Ferns’ use of layered materials and mixed media—including Japanese rice paper and textured Italian linen—imbues the works with a sense of age, memory, and tactility. Surfaces become vessels for time and devotion, emphasizing beauty in imperfection. In this series, each figure and form is a quiet offering, a meditation on warmth, story, and the enduring light that returns to us with patience and care.