Ayisha Carels | September 2026 | Festival Fields
Medium: Acrylic on canvas (40cm×30cm)

Festival Fields is inspired by my experience at Drops Festival, where I found myself looking at the familiar landscape around me in a completely different way. The painting captures the visual world I experienced while standing in the festival’s grassy fields, surrounded by music, nature and movement.

The bright green background represents the grass itself, while the overlapping triangles, zigzags and geometric patterns reflect the intricate visuals and shapes I saw emerging across the landscape. The peacock feathers are inspired by the vivid colours and striking patterns that seemed to appear within the grass, bringing elements of nature into an almost surreal composition.

I wanted to translate what I saw as faithfully as possible on