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Nectarios Livisianos
Nectarios Livisianos
Fault Lines
Fault Lines explores the tension between creative freedom and internal or external constraint, capturing the quiet rebellion of imagination pushing through the cracks of confinement. Rooted in personal struggle and collective memory, this series speaks to the persistence of expression — when the mind screams in silence and art becomes the language of resistance.
Fault Lines is a journey through the quiet tremors that shape our inner landscapes. These works dwell in the spaces between certainty and collapse, where the self meets its hidden counterpart. Figures and forms emerge against fractured planes — moments suspended between confrontation and surrender. Each canvas is both a threshold and a mirror, asking us to step closer to what we have kept in shadow, and to feel the ground shift beneath us.
The Room That Remembers
Oil on canvas
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$650
This work stages a psychological space where inner tensions simmer beneath the surface. The red geometry encloses and isolates, while the two grounded organic forms hint at something primal - gestures of suffering, emergence, or regression.
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$650
This work stages a psychological space where inner tensions simmer beneath the surface. The red geometry encloses and isolates, while the two grounded organic forms hint at something primal - gestures of suffering, emergence, or regression.
Exordium
Oil, acrylic on canvas
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$650
Exordium signals a beginning - the first fracture, the opening line in the story of Fault Lines. A solitary figure reaches towards a darkened branch, suggestive of peace, endurance, and renewal. Yet here, the branch also looms as a barrier, its presence both offering and withholding.
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$650
Exordium signals a beginning - the first fracture, the opening line in the story of Fault Lines. A solitary figure reaches towards a darkened branch, suggestive of peace, endurance, and renewal. Yet here, the branch also looms as a barrier, its presence both offering and withholding.
Veil Of The Observer
Oil, collage on canvas
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$550
A lone figure stands apart, watching the red silhouette peer through fractured blinds into an unseen world. This duality - the outsider observing the one who seeks - evokes the tension between inner awareness and external reality.
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$550
A lone figure stands apart, watching the red silhouette peer through fractured blinds into an unseen world. This duality - the outsider observing the one who seeks - evokes the tension between inner awareness and external reality.
Lean On Me
Oil, collage on canvas
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$550
In Lean On Me, I present a poignant visual meditation on care, burden, and silent resilience. The work layers oil and collage across a softly distressed surface of pinks, greys, and blues, evoking the emotional residue of memory and tenderness. Above, a collaged triptych of airplane windows shows clouded skies — symbols of distance, impermanence, or a longing to escape.
Anchored below is a striking red silhouette that, on closer inspection, reveals not one, but two human forms fused in quiet embrace. One figure kneels in silent support while the other rests limply across their knee — a gesture of surrender and dependence. Their forms are not clearly outlined, but rather bleed into each other, suggesting the invisible weight we sometimes carry for others — or allow others to carry for us.
With minimalism and emotional depth, Lean On Me explores themes of vulnerability, connection, and the blurred boundaries between self and other.
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$550
In Lean On Me, I present a poignant visual meditation on care, burden, and silent resilience. The work layers oil and collage across a softly distressed surface of pinks, greys, and blues, evoking the emotional residue of memory and tenderness. Above, a collaged triptych of airplane windows shows clouded skies — symbols of distance, impermanence, or a longing to escape.
Anchored below is a striking red silhouette that, on closer inspection, reveals not one, but two human forms fused in quiet embrace. One figure kneels in silent support while the other rests limply across their knee — a gesture of surrender and dependence. Their forms are not clearly outlined, but rather bleed into each other, suggesting the invisible weight we sometimes carry for others — or allow others to carry for us.
With minimalism and emotional depth, Lean On Me explores themes of vulnerability, connection, and the blurred boundaries between self and other.
They Were Never Born
Oil on canavs
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$750
In They Were Never Born, the figure stands in vivid, almost confrontational red — a presence without features, identity, or history. Projecting a stark shadow against a muted, textured backdrop, it embodies both existence and absence. The raised arms suggest yearning, resistance, or a silent call, yet the title strips away the comfort of a past or a future.
This work confronts the unsettling idea of potential unrealised — lives imagined but never lived, voices that never spoke, and stories erased before they began. The solitary form becomes a symbol for the unseen and unacknowledged, a reminder that absence can be as haunting as presence.
By reducing the figure to pure silhouette and shadow, the painting invites reflection on the fragile threshold between being and non-being, memory and forgetting, possibility and void.
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$750
In They Were Never Born, the figure stands in vivid, almost confrontational red — a presence without features, identity, or history. Projecting a stark shadow against a muted, textured backdrop, it embodies both existence and absence. The raised arms suggest yearning, resistance, or a silent call, yet the title strips away the comfort of a past or a future.
This work confronts the unsettling idea of potential unrealised — lives imagined but never lived, voices that never spoke, and stories erased before they began. The solitary form becomes a symbol for the unseen and unacknowledged, a reminder that absence can be as haunting as presence.
By reducing the figure to pure silhouette and shadow, the painting invites reflection on the fragile threshold between being and non-being, memory and forgetting, possibility and void.
Breaking Out
Oil on canvas
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$750
In Breaking Out, the faceless red figure presses against geometric forms, caught between confinement and escape. Inspired by Peter Booth’s dramatic sense of unease, the minimal background becomes a psychological arena rather than a physical one. The tension between red vitality and pale emptiness symbolises an inner struggle. Here, the figure embodies both the weight of isolation and the courage to resist, marking the threshold between captivity and freedom.
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$750
In Breaking Out, the faceless red figure presses against geometric forms, caught between confinement and escape. Inspired by Peter Booth’s dramatic sense of unease, the minimal background becomes a psychological arena rather than a physical one. The tension between red vitality and pale emptiness symbolises an inner struggle. Here, the figure embodies both the weight of isolation and the courage to resist, marking the threshold between captivity and freedom.
Echo Chamber
Oil on canvas
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$850
Echo Chamber explores the condition of self-imposed isolation. Influenced by Peter Booth’s simplified figures and psychologically charged spaces, the red silhouettes stand suspended in a vast blue void. Their mirrored forms suggest people absorbed in themselves, trapped within repetition, unable to connect. The stark contrast of red and blue intensifies emotional tension, making the silence between the figures feel louder than words.
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$850
Echo Chamber explores the condition of self-imposed isolation. Influenced by Peter Booth’s simplified figures and psychologically charged spaces, the red silhouettes stand suspended in a vast blue void. Their mirrored forms suggest people absorbed in themselves, trapped within repetition, unable to connect. The stark contrast of red and blue intensifies emotional tension, making the silence between the figures feel louder than words.
The Daydreamer
Oil on canvas
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$750
A red figure stands in stillness as another climbs up a ladder, dreaming of escape. Between them lies the fragile divide of thought and transcendence — the essence of Fault Lines.
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$750
A red figure stands in stillness as another climbs up a ladder, dreaming of escape. Between them lies the fragile divide of thought and transcendence — the essence of Fault Lines.
Out There, A Softer Sky
Oil on canvas
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$750
A lone, shadowed figure moves within a red chamber — a space that vibrates with intensity and isolation. The red represents both confinement and the pulse of life within it, a psychological room where desire and fear coexist. Above, a faint window of pale light offers the possibility of release — an imagined softness beyond the walls of the mind. This work continues my exploration of internal fractures and the fragile hope of transcendence, of reaching for something gentler just beyond our own making.
45.5 x 45.5 cm
$750
A lone, shadowed figure moves within a red chamber — a space that vibrates with intensity and isolation. The red represents both confinement and the pulse of life within it, a psychological room where desire and fear coexist. Above, a faint window of pale light offers the possibility of release — an imagined softness beyond the walls of the mind. This work continues my exploration of internal fractures and the fragile hope of transcendence, of reaching for something gentler just beyond our own making.
The Architecture Of Collapse
Oil, oil sticks on canvas
81 x 81 cm
$1500
This work explores the invisible tension between strength and fragility—how we lean on others when our own framework begins to give way. At its heart, the painting portrays a moment of quiet support: a friend helping another through depression. But beneath that gesture is a deeper truth—sometimes the helper is struggling too. We don’t always notice when their own scaffolding is cracked. This piece is a meditation on mutual vulnerability, unseen emotional labor, and the delicate balance we maintain when trying to hold up someone else while quietly collapsing ourselves.
81 x 81 cm
$1500
This work explores the invisible tension between strength and fragility—how we lean on others when our own framework begins to give way. At its heart, the painting portrays a moment of quiet support: a friend helping another through depression. But beneath that gesture is a deeper truth—sometimes the helper is struggling too. We don’t always notice when their own scaffolding is cracked. This piece is a meditation on mutual vulnerability, unseen emotional labor, and the delicate balance we maintain when trying to hold up someone else while quietly collapsing ourselves.
The Box They Built For Me
Oil on canvas
101 x 76
$1800
This work reflects my personal journey with racism and moving forward - belonging in Australian society. The figure sits confined within a box — a symbol of imposed identity and silent expectation. Surrounding birds hint at freedom and acceptance, yet distance remains. It’s a meditation on visibility, alienation, and quiet resilience.
101 x 76
$1800
This work reflects my personal journey with racism and moving forward - belonging in Australian society. The figure sits confined within a box — a symbol of imposed identity and silent expectation. Surrounding birds hint at freedom and acceptance, yet distance remains. It’s a meditation on visibility, alienation, and quiet resilience.
All Paths Lead To Somewhere
Oil, oil sticks on canvas
122 x 112 cm
$2200
All Paths Lead To Somewhere reflects the pull between direction and uncertainty — the tension of moving forward when the destination remains unknown. The work continues the visual and emotional vocabulary of Fault Lines, where cracks, divisions, and layered fields of colour become metaphors for internal landscapes.
The red figure stands as the unseen and unidentified self — stripped of individuality yet drawn toward becoming. The hand, the pathway, and the horizon suggest guidance and possibility: that even fractured or diverted routes lead to discovery.
The contrasting zones of red, blue, and gold echo the shifting terrain between chaos and calm, self and surrender. Ultimately, the painting offers a quiet faith in movement — a belief that no matter how fragmented the path, every step leads us closer to meaning.
122 x 112 cm
$2200
All Paths Lead To Somewhere reflects the pull between direction and uncertainty — the tension of moving forward when the destination remains unknown. The work continues the visual and emotional vocabulary of Fault Lines, where cracks, divisions, and layered fields of colour become metaphors for internal landscapes.
The red figure stands as the unseen and unidentified self — stripped of individuality yet drawn toward becoming. The hand, the pathway, and the horizon suggest guidance and possibility: that even fractured or diverted routes lead to discovery.
The contrasting zones of red, blue, and gold echo the shifting terrain between chaos and calm, self and surrender. Ultimately, the painting offers a quiet faith in movement — a belief that no matter how fragmented the path, every step leads us closer to meaning.
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