18” x 24” Unframed

19.5" x 25.5" Framed

Mixed medium painting on 1” deep canvas with the edges painted white.

Oak 2.5" deep floater frame option available for additional fee.

Each painting is shipped out of Savanna’s studio in Charleston, South Carolina.

This painting ships within the US. If you are outside of the US, you can contact savannampurcell@gmail.com with the size piece you are interested in, as well as your shipping address and I will get back to you with a shipping quote.

*Please allow 2-3 weeks for paintings to ship*

About the Piece:

The symbolism of fruit is extremely expansive and interesting to me as an artist. The end goal of all of my work is to nourish the viewer emotionally and mentally. In the case of this piece, I used lemons, limes and peaches because of their sarcastic and ironic use in conversation.

“When life gives you lemons” becomes a phrase you roll your eyes at even harder after the death of a loved one. All those “encouragements” you definitely said to or about other peoples’ situations aren’t so encouraging once you find yourself in their place.

You find yourself replying, “good” after so many people ask how you are. You catch yourself doing what is easiest and gets you through the day the quickest but you wish so much to respond honestly. “ Just peachy ” is a perfect ironic response that came to mind for this piece.

On the other hand, fruit is such a reminder of time and seasons. Everything blooms, grows and vanishes as it should. This piece is a reminder of that “sureness” of nature and life’s similarities to it.

About the Collection:

The concept for this collection was birthed from the phrase, “The only sure thing in life is death”. As dark as that is, it is true. No matter who we are or what we do or don’t do, we are all going to pass on one day. It is a guarantee in life. It’s a sobering fact that has been forced into my world quite recently. My 19 year old brother passed away in October of 2020 from an accidental overdose. I now find myself and my family in a category that we would never want to be in. Processing and healing through something of nightmares. The strangest part of all of it is that you want things to feel normal again but you don’t want your reality to be the new normal. You don’t want to get used to it and you don’t want to live with it. So this collection is about coming to terms with loss but it’s mostly about soldiering on and the search for other sure things. Birth, growth, life, renewal, release, forgiveness, and strength.