Acrylic Canvas Painting, Original Art, Intriguing with Color

This artwork is a colorful, intriguing and captivating 30" x 40" acrylic painting titled "Thinking Of An Escape Plan", original and one of a kind painted in the New Mexico studio of Thomas Hill.

This painting is a vivid explosion of color, movement, and emotional energy that feels suspended between chaos and emergence. Layers of luminous greens, electric blues, fiery oranges, deep crimsons, and saturated violets collide and intermingle across the surface, creating a dynamic visual field that continually reveals new relationships and forms.

At the center, a loose structural framework of intersecting vertical and horizontal lines acts as an anchor amid the turbulence. Around this axis, translucent washes, drips, splatters, and sweeping gestures create a sense of depth and motion, as though multiple moments are unfolding simultaneously. The painting balances spontaneity with intention, allowing vibrant passages of color to bleed into one another while retaining distinct areas of tension and contrast.

The upper portion is dominated by radiant turquoise and emerald forms that suggest atmospheric currents, celestial phenomena, or organic growth. Below, warmer reds, oranges, and magentas surge upward like flames, molten earth, or concentrated bursts of energy. Delicate white markings and linear accents cut through the composition, offering moments of visual rhythm and drawing the eye through the layered surface.
There is a strong sense of transformation throughout the work. Colors appear to dissolve, re-form, and migrate across the canvas, creating an impression of continual evolution rather than fixed imagery. While entirely abstract, the painting evokes landscapes, weather systems, underwater environments, and even psychological states without settling into any single interpretation.
The result is a powerful contemporary abstract expressionist work that celebrates color as both subject and emotion. Its luminous palette, energetic mark-making, and richly textured surface create an immersive experience that feels simultaneously exuberant, mysterious, and deeply alive. The painting invites prolonged viewing, rewarding the observer with new discoveries as shifting layers of light, color, and gesture reveal themselves over time.

You must see this painting in person to fully appreciate it's scope, size and beauty!

It is hand-signed and dated both on the front and the back. High quality professional acrylic paints used on a 1 1/2" deep gallery wrapped, quality 10 ounce thick cotton duck canvas. Stretched on a reinforced wooden frame, this gallery wrapped canvas is splined and stapled on the back and painted on all sides to reveal a wraparound painting that needs no framing.

It is ready to hang unframed and comes with all hanging hardware attached. It is archival, will last for decades to come and is an exceptional value for an original art piece.

This artwork would make a great addition to your home, business, or as a gift.


Because of it's size, this can only ship within the U.S.