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A peony in full bloom is one of the oldest ways to talk about a woman without quite talking about her — her softness, her season, everything quietly unfolding at once. Read into that whatever you’d like.

The riddle: Poets have used flowers to talk about women for centuries without saying the quiet part out loud. We’re just carrying on the tradition.

About the Icons Collection:

The Icons Collection began in the middle of the biggest transition of my life — packing up everything in Thailand and moving my whole world (two dogs, one cat, and more emotion than I knew what to do with) back to the UK. I’d just stepped away from working as an online adult worker and thrown myself into painting, and then, weeks before the move, got so unwell I couldn’t hold a brush.

A friend of mine — I call her Panda — flew out to help me get home. Before we left, we set up five canvases and gave ourselves six minutes each, working in silence, moving between them one at a time, no talking, no plan. Whatever needed to come out, came out.

Months later, settled back in the UK, I came back to those five backgrounds and painted a single gold icon onto each one — an image Panda and I chose together, back in Thailand, as a private joke between the two of us. Look closely enough, and bring a slightly cheeky mind, and you might work out what they actually mean. I’m not telling.

This collection is what happens when something painful gets turned into something beautiful, and a friendship gets stitched into the paint.

Original artwork, one of one

Part of the AYMARIE ART ICONS Collection, 2026

Acrylic and metallic paint on stretched canvas, 20 × 28in (50 × 70cm)

Signed by the artist

Includes Certificate of Authenticity

Lips keep secrets as easily as they give them away — a whisper, a kiss, whatever passes between two mouths that never gets written down. This one holds a version of that.

The riddle: A kiss can start in one place and end up somewhere else entirely. Use your imagination.

About the Icons Collection:

The Icons Collection began in the middle of the biggest transition of my life — packing up everything in Thailand and moving my whole world (two dogs, one cat, and more emotion than I knew what to do with) back to the UK. I’d just stepped away from working as an online adult worker and thrown myself into painting, and then, weeks before the move, got so unwell I couldn’t hold a brush.

A friend of mine — I call her Panda — flew out to help me get home. Before we left, we set up five canvases and gave ourselves six minutes each, working in silence, moving between them one at a time, no talking, no plan. Whatever needed to come out, came out.

Months later, settled back in the UK, I came back to those five backgrounds and painted a single gold icon onto each one — an image Panda and I chose together, back in Thailand, as a private joke between the two of us. Look closely enough, and bring a slightly cheeky mind, and you might work out what they actually mean. I’m not telling.

This collection is what happens when something painful gets turned into something beautiful, and a friendship gets stitched into the paint.

Original artwork, one of one

Part of the AYMARIE ART ICONS Collection, 2026

Acrylic and metallic paint on stretched canvas, 20 × 28in

Signed by the artist

Includes Certificate of Authenticity

A peach has always meant more than fruit. I’m not going to spell it out. Some jokes are better left exactly where we left them: painted in gold and grinning back at whoever gets it.

The riddle: You already know the emoji. What do you think we were really talking about?

About the Icons Collection:

The Icons Collection began in the middle of the biggest transition of my life — packing up everything in Thailand and moving my whole world (two dogs, one cat, and more emotion than I knew what to do with) back to the UK. I’d just stepped away from working as an online adult worker and thrown myself into painting, and then, weeks before the move, got so unwell I couldn’t hold a brush.

A friend of mine — I call her Panda — flew out to help me get home. Before we left, we set up five canvases and gave ourselves six minutes each, working in silence, moving between them one at a time, no talking, no plan. Whatever needed to come out, came out.

Months later, settled back in the UK, I came back to those five backgrounds and painted a single gold icon onto each one — an image Panda and I chose together, back in Thailand, as a private joke between the two of us. Look closely enough, and bring a slightly cheeky mind, and you might work out what they actually mean. I’m not telling.

This collection is what happens when something painful gets turned into something beautiful, and a friendship gets stitched into the paint.

Original artwork, one of one

Part of the AYMARIE ART ICONS Collection, 2026

Acrylic and metallic paint on stretched canvas, 12 × 16in

Signed by the artist

Includes Certificate of Authenticity

Some things get called soaking wet long after the rain has stopped. This one holds a joke between two people who spent six minutes at a time not speaking, just painting — and laughing about it after.

The riddle: Not rain, not the sea. So where do you think all this water came from?

About the Icons Collection:

The Icons Collection began in the middle of the biggest transition of my life — packing up everything in Thailand and moving my whole world (two dogs, one cat, and more emotion than I knew what to do with) back to the UK. I’d just stepped away from working as an online adult worker and thrown myself into painting, and then, weeks before the move, got so unwell I couldn’t hold a brush.

A friend of mine — I call her Panda — flew out to help me get home. Before we left, we set up five canvases and gave ourselves six minutes each, working in silence, moving between them one at a time, no talking, no plan. Whatever needed to come out, came out.

Months later, settled back in the UK, I came back to those five backgrounds and painted a single gold icon onto each one — an image Panda and I chose together, back in Thailand, as a private joke between the two of us. Look closely enough, and bring a slightly cheeky mind, and you might work out what they actually mean. I’m not telling.

This collection is what happens when something painful gets turned into something beautiful, and a friendship gets stitched into the paint.

Original artwork, one of one

Part of the AYMARIE ART ICONS Collection, 2026

Acrylic and metallic paint on stretched canvas, 12 × 16in

Signed by the artist

Includes Certificate of Authenticity

The gold monogram at the centre of this piece is an A laid over an A — my initials, and, quietly, the initials Panda and I share too. It felt right that the very first icon in this collection would be a mark of the two of us, painted into the base of everything else. Double trouble, in more ways than one.

The riddle: Two A’s, one gold mark. Whose initials do you think are really hiding here?

About the Icons Collection:

The Icons Collection began in the middle of the biggest transition of my life — packing up everything in Thailand and moving my whole world (two dogs, one cat, and more emotion than I knew what to do with) back to the UK. I’d just stepped away from working as an online adult worker and thrown myself into painting, and then, weeks before the move, got so unwell I couldn’t hold a brush.

A friend of mine — I call her Panda — flew out to help me get home. Before we left, we set up five canvases and gave ourselves six minutes each, working in silence, moving between them one at a time, no talking, no plan. Whatever needed to come out, came out.

Months later, settled back in the UK, I came back to those five backgrounds and painted a single gold icon onto each one — an image Panda and I chose together, back in Thailand, as a private joke between the two of us. Look closely enough, and bring a slightly cheeky mind, and you might work out what they actually mean. I’m not telling.

This collection is what happens when something painful gets turned into something beautiful, and a friendship gets stitched into the paint.

Original artwork, one of one

Part of the AYMARIE ART ICONS Collection, 2026

Acrylic and metallic paint on stretched canvas, 12 × 16in

Signed by the artist

Includes Certificate of Authenticity