Consequence of Beauty

Oil Painting on Gallery Wrapped Canvas

Gloss Varnished

A woman's face tilts upward in an expression of raw vulnerability and transcendence, her features painted in luminous porcelain tones that seem to glow against the atmospheric chaos surrounding her. Her eyes are obscured—perhaps closed in meditation, perhaps veiled by something darker—while streams of deep crimson flow from beneath the shadows, trailing down her ethereal face like the price paid for transformation.

Crowning her head is a magnificent rose in full bloom, rendered in coral, peach, and pink, its petals unfurling with almost violent beauty. The flower doesn't simply rest upon her—it grows from her, as if her pain and her beauty share the same root system. Her neck elongates gracefully, dissolving into abstract washes of sienna, olive, and gray, while wildflowers and organic forms drift through the composition like witnesses to her metamorphosis.