Taher Jaoui Love on the Edge For Sale

About this work

Taher Jaoui is an artist whose work occupies a compelling territory between figuration and abstraction, driven by an urgent engagement with the psychological and emotional dimensions of human experience. His large-scale canvases, worked in oil and acrylic, deploy vigorous gestural brushwork and an intensely saturated palette to construct images that feel simultaneously personal and universal in their emotional address. Love on the Edge (2026) is an oil and acrylic on canvas measuring 180 × 200 cm. Jaoui's signature gestural brushwork defines the surface: broad, confident marks build and dissolve form across the canvas, creating a dynamic compositional field in which semi-legible figures and abstract passages coexist in productive tension. The title announces the work's emotional preoccupation — the precarious beauty of love at its most intense, the vulnerability of connection forged at the boundary of the rational and the overwhelming — and the image gives these themes vivid, visceral form. Dynamic forms emerge from an abstract field of clashing and merging colour, evoking a raw sense of vulnerability and compelling tension. Jaoui's deployment of both oil and acrylic on a single canvas enables a range of surface qualities — from the luminous, translucent layers achievable in acrylic to the buttery, impasto richness of oil — that together create a pictorial surface of exceptional complexity. The large format amplifies the emotional intensity of the image, the scale ensuring that the viewer's encounter with the work is felt as much as seen. Love on the Edge is a work of considerable expressive ambition, demonstrating Jaoui's ability to locate the universal in the intimately personal.