Resting Woman

Oil and acrylic with a textured surface on gallery-wrapped canvas, 24 × 30 × 1.5 inches, 2024.

Resting Woman is an original figurative painting presenting a woman in a moment of rest that is neither passive nor fragile. Her posture suggests pause rather than surrender. Beneath the calm surface, she carries tension, resolve, and endurance.

Layers of oil and acrylic create a dense, tactile surface with visible marks and areas of relief. Cool blues, turquoise, and green surround the figure, establishing an atmosphere of stillness while reinforcing her physical and emotional presence. The textured surface suggests strength formed through pressure rather than ease.

Part of the Women’s Resilience collection, Resting Woman portrays a woman claiming space, agency, and self-possession. Here, rest becomes an act of defiance—a refusal to disappear, retreat, or relinquish one’s ground.

Original oil and acrylic painting on gallery-wrapped canvas. Ships from New York.