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Citadel of the Impaler

Acrylic on canvas, 2025 Buy it? In Citadel of the Impaler, Rob Medley conjures a fortress not merely of stone, but of myth and memory. The viewer is cast low at the foot of a craggy ascent, gazing up at a brooding castle silhouetted against a moon like a frozen scream. One can almost hear the silence—dense, expectant, steeped in a centuries-long vigil. Citadel of the Impaler The titular…

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Screeching Into the Void

Screeching into the Void presents the Painted Bat, Kerivoula picta, as a creature both exquisite and unsettling. Known to the artist as the Halloween bat, Rob Medley captures its vivid dichotomy: the bat’s fiery orange fur and black-patterned wings recall autumn’s twilight hues, yet its presence feels elemental, as though etched from some deeper midnight. Kerivoula picta, a delicate vesper bat…

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Aard I Cute

Aard I Cute steps into view with a sideways grin,not quite satire, not quite affection, but something comfortably feral between. Rob Medley offers a portrait of an aardwolf that strays far from scientific illustration and lands instead in the charged zone of character study, where animal becomes icon. The aardwolf itself, Proteles cristatus, a shy insectivore of the African savanna, cousin to…

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Forever Yours (Sold)

Forever Yours presents itself in whispers. Rob Medley’s latest spectral vignette is less a painting than a visitation, a visual elegy woven in acrylics and silence. At first glance, one might mistake it for a simple ghost story, but the composition resists haste. It demands a slower gaze, a kind of reverence. The central figure, a woman rendered in diaphanous whites, half-subsumed by the blue…

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Fog of War

There are paintings that capture a moment—and then there are paintings that ignite one. In Fog of War, Rob Medley doesn’t just paint a ship—he conjures an atmosphere. A lone frigate sails headlong into a fire-wreathed fogbank, caught in the breath between impact and silence. The result is a piece that feels like history remembered through emotion, not through accuracy—where the haze of battle is…

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After the Garden

After the Garden: The First Woman Remembered There is a quiet violence in the aftermath of paradise—an unraveling of what was once divine certainty. After the Garden, a painting by Rob Medley, captures that moment with fierce intimacy: the first woman, eyes lit with something older than scripture, stares beyond the viewer as if recalling a truth too dangerous for the world that followed. The…

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Daydreaming

Daydreaming invites you to lie back and look up—right from the tangled base of a blooming cherry blossom. The perspective flips the traditional view of flowering trees, pulling you into the roots and letting the blossoms bloom upward like thoughts rising through a spring-warmed mind. Painted in layered acrylics with thick impasto texture and scattered petal highlights, the piece drifts between…

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Meth Jesus

Some commissions come with a story, but Meth Jesus came with a myth. A reenactment group, JR/IR-459 — equal parts World War One history buffs and long-lunch legends—frequented a no-name café somewhere on the edge of Pennsylvania obscurity. Above the counter, watching over greasy burgers and chipped mugs of coffee, was a portrait of Jesus. Not the solemn Nazarene or the glowing Redeemer—but…

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Fortune’s Gambit

“Fortune’s Gambit” – A Study in Color, Chaos, and Fate In Fortune’s Gambit, Rob conjures a world where nature’s fury and fate’s indifference converge in a breathtaking display of movement, texture, and atmosphere. The piece captures a spectral wreck, its rotting hull and tattered sails draped in ghostly decay, caught in an eternal struggle against the elements. But this is no ordinary maritime…

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New Etsy Store

Hello, I’ve gravitated to Etsy again and opened a new store. My old one is on permanent vacation by Etsy since they wont acknowledge the documents I sent in verifying my LLC, so I skirted the problem. So far there’s 23 listings which is a lot to do in one day. More listings will follow in the coming days. https://robsacrylics.etsy.com/listing/1866423602

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Contentment

The Story Behind Contentment Originally painted around 2017, the first iteration of Contentment featured a serene, introspective woman in a peaceful pose. However, as time passed, the idea of expanding the scene began to take shape. The addition of the jellyfish transformed the piece from a simple portrait into a surreal underwater moment—one where human and marine life exist in a state of…

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Nightwatch

Under a vast and shifting sky, a lone ship sails through the spectral glow of the night, its golden sails catching the last whispers of daylight. Nightwatch is a study of light and shadow, a tribute to the unseen forces that guide us through uncertain waters. The sea churns, the horizon beckons, and above, a spectral halo of the moon — an omen, a promise, or a lingering ghost of the sun.

30″ x 40″ Acrylic on Canvas Under a vast and shifting sky, a lone ship sails through the spectral glow of the night, its golden sails catching the last whispers of daylight. Nightwatch is a study of light and shadow, a tribute to the unseen forces that guide us through uncertain waters. The sea churns, the horizon beckons, and above, a spectral halo of the moon — an omen, a promise, or a…

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You Otter Love Christmas

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Wyvern's Mirage

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Woman in Window

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Woman with Ring

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Woman in Rain