This painting is built in layered oil and cold wax using mineral pigments, including lapis lazuli and ultramarine, to create a deep, shifting blue that holds light within the surface.
I was thinking about how order and repetition of form is found throughout nature. Rather than presenting a narrative, the work explores relationship and presence. Human, animal, and botanical forms exist in a shared atmosphere, reflecting one another through shape, color, and stillness.
The composition developed around visual echoes, the curve of the heron’s neck, the arc of the flowers, and the turn of the woman’s face repeating one another in subtle ways. Even the color of the woman’s gaze and the heron's exist on the same plane, creating a quiet continuity across both figures.
The image emerged gradually through layered application, scraping, and rebuilding, allowing the painting to feel discovered rather than imposed creating a surface where memory and form settle into balance.