Location: South Africa
A fine artist, specializing in portrait fine art, generated from photos of myself/body or everyday objects as muse. I generate portrait artworks from these images, through technological assisted software. Once the digital design is complete, I then use the design as reference and create the artwork I desire to challenge social justice. My art is for a purpose and proceeds are allocated to The Lady Isabel Foundation for outreach and philanthropic endeavors.
Monochrome Rainbow (Triptych, 2025)
Mixed Media on Fabriano Paper | Caelthorne
1. “Aesthetically Bleeding Love, with Pride”
Gold tears, fragmented forms, and deliberate symmetry meet in this haunting portrait of vulnerability. A study in contrasts—sharp versus soft, beauty versus brokenness—the piece bleeds not just colour, but meaning. Within its precision is a yearning: to be seen wholly, not in parts. Here, pride is not a performance but an ache made beautiful.
This work reminds us that queerness, too, is survival with style.
2. “Dear Angel, Cry Us a Rainbow. With Love, Your Demons”
An open letter in paint and pencil, this piece fuses celestial and infernal metaphors to explore queer emotionality—where joy and pain often cohabitate. The divine cries not because it is weak, but because it feels everything. Gold floods the cracks, offering grace. Pride, in this context, is what rises from sorrow: layered, lush, defiant.
A love note from shadow to light, from mask to soul.
3. “Divine Ambiguity and Love, with Pride”
(Previously shared but adapted for cohesion here)
A gaze carved from myth and mirror, this portrait honors the sanctity of in-between spaces. Gender dissolves, gold flows, and ambiguity reigns divine. The work transcends celebration, becoming a shrine to the multifaceted, the fluid, and the fiercely proud.
This is not a face—it is a feeling, drawn in love, crowned in pride.
From Caelthorne: "This triptych was indeed one of the most personal and emotional artworks that I've produced to date. With the narrative, the story behind each face and the message I wish to portray has been a journey of vulnerability and re-discovering myself through art. I hope that at least one of these piece will touch your soul, for just a split second!"
“Dear Angel, cry us a rainbow? With Love, Your Demons.”
Mixed Media on Fabriano Paper
Charcoal, graphite, ink and acrylic paint.
Unframed
An open letter in paint and pencil, this piece fuses celestial and infernal metaphors to explore queer emotionality—where joy and pain often cohabitate. The divine cries not because it is weak, but because it feels everything. Gold floods the cracks, offering grace. Pride, in this context, is what rises from sorrow: layered, lush, defiant.
A love note from shadow to light, from mask to soul.
By Caelthorne Art. Rights reserved.
“Aesthetically Bleeding Love, with Pride.”
Mixed Media on Fabriano Paper
Charcoal, graphite, ink and acrylic
Unframed
Gold tears, fragmented forms, and deliberate symmetry meet in this haunting portrait of vulnerability. A study in contrasts—sharp versus soft, beauty versus brokenness—the piece bleeds not just colour, but meaning. Within its precision is a yearning: to be seen wholly, not in parts. Here, pride is not a performance but an ache made beautiful.
This work reminds us that queerness, too, is survival with style.
From Caelthorne: "We all love vanity, but do we love the narrative? In honor of pride month, I created this portrait from a personal angle and with meticulously planned symbols and metaphors. Ultimately, if you could see yourself in this portrait... then I succeeded"
“Divine Ambiguity and Love, with Pride”
Mixed Media on Fabriano Paper | Caelthorne
Charcoal, graphite, ink and acrylic paint
Unframed
A gaze carved from myth and mirror, this portrait honours the sanctity of in-between spaces. Gender dissolves, gold flows, and ambiguity reigns divine. The work transcends celebration, becoming a shrine to the multifaceted, the fluid, and the fiercely proud.
This is not a face—it is a feeling, drawn in love, crowned in pride.
Available: This is the Caelthorne Collection and Portfolio with artworks and portraits made in mixed-medium on fabriano paper. The Caelthorne Collection Portfolio tackles topics of social justice, with expressive artistic expression - abstract, surreal with meaning and impact. My art is for a purpose, and all artwork's proceeds are allocated to The Lady Isabel Foundation to support them in their outreach initiatives and philanthropic ventures.
“"Indlovukazi" The Great Female Elephant”
A strong, yet delicate force radiates from Caelthorne's latest artwork: "The Great Female Elephant"—a drawing not merely of just an African woman, but one that represents all women who carry generations on their shoulders. Strong monochrome colors, suggests that Caelthorne did not want to influence the viewer's own opinion or emotional relation, by influence of bold colors. "This time, it's important that the soul of the woman is seen, than merely just her appearance - whoever she may be" says Caelthorne.
Resilience, content and a feeling of "home" comes to mind with this portrait with a dash of gold, to emphasize the "rich" and "wealth" of women - almost metaphoric of a crown woven from lineage, life, struggle, past, successes, celebrations, bad times, good times etc. The thin "root" lines on the headwrap and garment stretches without end, to echo the trees of Africa. The symbol of growth, memory and unbroken connection to the land. "Mother" Earth, gives life to "The Great Female Elephant" who in turn gives life to others again. The circle of life is quite dramatically depicted on the background of the portrait in strong, blackened charcoal in circular movements, pointing to the queens of the world. She is mother, she is life. She is queen.
