g41L is the artistic pseudonym of Abigail, a Manchester-based abstract artist whose work thrives in the tension between clarity and ambiguity. Her guiding mantra - “Nonsense. Or not” - sets the stage for paintings that resist certainty, instead opening space for the viewer’s own meaning.

A recurring motif in her work is the dollar sign: a symbol of global wealth, instantly recognisable yet strangely irrelevant in her own life. As a UK-based artist, Abigail plays with its irony: the dollar carries enormous symbolic weight, yet it holds no practical value in her day-to-day. This contradiction becomes part of the message. In pieces like “RICH IN HAPPINESS” (2023) and “ONE TRUE LOVE ($)” (2025) the bold dollar marks suggest abundance, but not the financial kind. To Abigail, true richness is found in happiness, love, and the emotional wealth that money can’t touch.

Her practice and difference across collections also reflects the split between her two personas: one vivid, loud, and unapologetically playful—drawing on the swagger and colour of streetwear culture; the other quieter, restrained, and contemplative, mirroring the calm she seeks in contrast to the demands of her working life. These dual energies collide and coexist on canvas, revealing the push and pull of identity lived across different worlds.

By recontextualising the dollar and embodying her duality, she asks us to reflect on what we value most. Is wealth measured in currency—or in connection? In power—or in presence? The answer, like her paintings, shifts with every perspective.

Through instinctive abstraction, colour, and rhythm, g41L creates canvases that feel both raw and refined, coded and open. Each piece is an invitation to pause, to feel, to question. Is it nonsense—or not? That depends on you.