Asteria

Original acrylic on canvas, 100 x 80 cm. Asteria sits with one knee drawn up, an arm folded across it, her head turned toward the light. Her body is laid down in short strokes of deep ultramarine, layered until the blue reads like night water, while behind her a warm gold ground glows the colour of late sun on stone. Named for the Titaness of falling stars, she carries that quiet after light. The pose is closed and self contained, a woman resting inside her own thoughts. Part of the Daughters of the Sea series.