The Silent Guardians collection
Oil on canvas
160 × 200 cm
Artemis’ Note:
Dreams are overrated.
We spend our lives chasing them, protecting them, worshipping them.
Most dreams are pink. Soft. Beautiful. Predictable.
What changes us is not the dream.
It's the unexpected thing hidden inside it.
The guardians already know this.
They stand quietly among your dreams that will one day become reality, in your own way.
Watching. Waiting.
Oil on canvas
160 × 200 cm
Artemis’ Note:
Before answers, there was the cave.
Walls covered in scratches, symbols, and unfinished thoughts.
Most were forgotten.
The Silent Guardians remained.
The meanings disappeared.
The questions survived.
Oil on canvas
160 × 200 cm
Artemis’ Note:
I kept imagining an ancient rainforest.Silence that has existed for thousands of years.
Life everywhere, yet almost invisible.
Unexplained marks and objects that seem familiar, but impossible to understand.
Who made them?
What are they trying to tell us?
Perhaps not everything is meant to be explained.
Some things exist simply to be wondered about.
I love how it feels endless and full of mystery.
Contemporary abstract paintings by Artemis Orttu.
Each piece begins as a feeling rather than an idea. Through texture, silence, and intuition, I create original paintings that explore memory, beauty, spirits, emptiness, and the unseen forces that shape our lives.
Many works are influenced by the Dao, not as a philosophy to explain, but as a way of seeing.
Original works are available for collectors worldwide.