SELECTED WORKS 2024-2025
The wild is not depicted - but awakened
STEALTH
Sold | 2024
Medium: Charcoal on cotton paper
Size: 50 × 70 cm
Status: First wildlife work sold
Overview:
Stealth marks the beginning of Sarika Purchase’s wildlife fine art journey.
Executed in charcoal on cotton paper, the work captures controlled forward motion, focused eye contact, and restrained power.
The composition emphasizes presence over aggression, establishing an early foundation for her large format predator studies.
CONTEMPLATION
Available | 2025
Medium: Charcoal on cotton paper
Size: 50 × 70 cm
Overview:
Contemplation captures a moment of stillness rather than motion.
The profile composition emphasizes restraint, awareness, and quiet intelligence.
The work focuses on subtle tonal transitions and controlled contrast, allowing the subject’s presence to emerge without theatrical gesture.
THE WILD AS IT WERE
Available | 2025
Medium: Charcoal on cotton paper
Size: 50 × 70 cm
Overview:
The Wild As It Were presents the predator not as spectacle, but as inevitability.
The cropped profile and open negative space heighten tension, allowing the subject’s presence to dominate without movement or narrative embellishment.
The work relies on disciplined tonal control and precision detailing to convey power in a manner that can be felt.
Artist Note:
This work reflects a mature approach to wildlife portraiture,
where the wild is neither dramatized nor softened, but allowed to exist as it is,
quiet, powerful, and unquestionable.
ORIGINS OF WILD POWER
Available | 2024
First Wildlife Study
Medium: Charcoal on acid-free mixed media paper
Size: 50 × 65 cm
Status: Foundational work
Overview:
Origins of Wild Power marks the beginning of Sarika Purchase’s wildlife practice.
Created as a study, the work confronts the viewer directly, rejecting sentimentality in favor of presence, motion, and intimidation.
The leopard is depicted as it exists in the wild, alert, confrontational, and unapologetic.
Intent:
This piece was driven by a deliberate refusal to soften or aestheticise the subject.
It serves as a statement against the tendency to portray big cats as decorative or benign.
The forward motion and direct gaze establish the tone that would later define Sarika’s predator portraits.
Artist Note:
This work represents the moment where fascination became direction. It was not created to please,
but to acknowledge the wild as it is: powerful, unsettling, and deserving of respect.
HORSE IN MOTION
Available | 2025
Medium: Charcoal on cotton paper
Size: 50 × 70 cm
Category: Wildlife and Equine Fine Art
Overview:
This work explores power through motion rather than confrontation. The horse is rendered mid stride, suspended between force and control.
Soft diffusion in the background contrasts with sharply defined musculature, allowing movement to remain the dominant narrative.
Artist Note:
This piece reflects an ongoing interest in capturing energy at its peak, where motion itself becomes the subject rather than the environment that contains it.
THE HUMBLE WILD
Available | 2023
Medium: Charcoal on cotton paper
Medium: Charcoal
Paper:100% cotton
Size: 34 × 51 cm
Overview:
This close study focuses on texture, weight, and quiet presence.
Cropped tightly against a white field, the elephant is rendered through layered charcoal marks that emphasize skin,
age, and mass rather than scale or environment.
The composition removes narrative distraction, allowing the subject’s dignity to stand on its own.