Lady with Butterfly Painting Frame:Linen white The image holds the crisp

The image holds the crisp

Its glowing blues

The mood is gentle and contemplative

their golden-amber centres and slender stamens picked out crisply against the deeper reds of opening buds and reddish young leaves

charging the whole composition with raw momentum

Lady with Butterfly Painting Frame:Linen white The image holds the crispA young woman's face emerges from a dense tangle of dark foliage, her calm gaze meeting the viewer through a veil of leaves. Vivid yellow butterflies settle around her brow and shoulders, their wings edged in black bringing flickers of light to the shadowed greenery. Small wildflowers and curling vines weave through her hair, blurring the line between portrait and forest. The painterly, almost dreamlike treatment lends the image a sense of mystery,