Expression

Expression - Oil on canvas · Brush · 18 × 24 in · Unframed · Original · Los Angeles, California

She holds your gaze without effort and without apology. Against a warm ochre ground, framed by a crown of natural hair and gold hoops that catch the light, Expression looks back at whoever is looking - calm, certain, entirely herself.

The painting is built in deep shadow and precise light: the luminosity of the skin, the extraordinary pale blue of the eyes, the rust of the draped fabric, each element rendered in oil with the patience the subject commands. This is not a study. It is a presence.

In the tradition of the great portrait, updated entirely for now.

Oil on canvas. Brush. Certificate of authenticity included. Ready to hang unframed.

From the Les Femmes series of Mémoire Vivante, an original collection by French-American painter Laurence Gamelin.