Galerie Detail in black and white: Respair, 2020, oil and acrylic on canvas, 60in. x 72in.

ADAM BALL - COLLECTION TWENTY ONE

In a striking confluence of art and fashion, Eve & Max debuts with a collection born from the chromatic pulse of Respair—a hypnotic canvas by celebrated British artist Adam Ball. Translating the visceral energy of a rainforest in flux, Respair is both a meditation on fragility and a triumphant ode to renewal. It is a work that doesn’t simply depict nature—it breathes it, pulses with it, and challenges us to confront our own temporal dance with hope and survival.

Executed in a lush interplay of oil and acrylic, Ball’s composition seduces with tonal harmonies of dusky rose and points of riotous turquoise, shadowed in layered pinks that swell and recede like breath. Each stroke is deliberate yet instinctive, a choreography of chaos and calm, capturing the rainforest as a metaphor—alive, threatened, defiant. Respair isn’t still; it trembles with meaning.

This transcendent work is reimagined on silk, becoming the soul of Eve & Max’s inaugural collection—an elegant, wearable reflection of Ball’s visual poetry. Woven into the collection’s DNA is an ideology of rebirth: a post-chaos clarity, a sensual resilience. It is fashion that doesn’t just adorn, but awakens. The inaugural collection benefited the Rainforest Foundation US.

 


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Artist Adam Ball Shares Respair

 

It is late afternoon London time, and we have given contemporary British artist Adam Ball a buzz. He takes our call from his studio, a place where he has spent an extraordinary (and unexpected) amount of time since the world first went into pandemic-related lockdowns a year ago.

We're on the line to chat with Adam about his latest collaboration — a work created specifically for Eve & Max's newest collection. The work is quintessentially Adam: Energetic and observational in nature, the oil and acrylic painting transforms various shades of pink into abstracted elements that recall a densely wooded landscape. The work, titled Respair, was commissioned specifically by Eve & Max founder Max Trowbridge and comes to life printed atop silk charmeuse for dresses, kimonos, camisoles and more. READ