Monarch Rising is an original fine art painting by Ashvin Harrison — a profound celebration of renewal, beauty, and emotional evolution. Created for exhibition at the Art Miami Fair during Art Basel 2025 with The Wall Art Gallery, this piece stands as one of three feature works representing Harrison’s fusion of realism, emotion, and expressive abstraction.

At the centre of the composition, a nude female figure rises in luminous charcoal realism, her head tilted upward in surrender to the unseen. Her posture evokes release — the moment when strength and softness coexist as one. Harrison’s charcoal brushing technique renders her with anatomical precision and soulful presence, bridging realism and transcendence.
From her crown erupts a breathtaking storm of motion — golden, blue, and peach splashes interwoven with hand-painted flowers, forming an atmosphere of wild beauty and transformation. Butterflies drift upward from her chest and shoulders, their wings ablaze in monarch orange and gold. They symbolise metamorphosis, freedom, and the fragile persistence of life… to live in the Miami moment.

The upper explosion of movement becomes both hair and cosmos — a halo of thoughts, emotions, and memory blooming outward into infinity. Monarch Rising captures the essence of Harrison’s evolving Motusrealism — a dance between structure and spontaneity, form and spirit. It is an ode to self-awakening, depicting the inner unfolding that follows release, acceptance, and renewal.