The Nap
Original oil painting on canvas with acrylic underpainting, 18" x 24" x 1.5", 2020.
In The Nap, a woman curls up on the floor of a blue hotel room, her head bowed and her arms wrapped around her knees. A mahogany bed, a divan, a small table, and blue framed pictures surround her, but she has settled in the one place that asks nothing of her.
Inspired by a moment of weariness after travel and wine, this impressionistic figurative painting finds tenderness in an unguarded pause. Loose brushstrokes soften the room around her, while the contrast of cool blue walls and a deep burgundy floor draws us close to the figure. The Nap is an original painting about a woman taking the rest she needs—a quiet, intimate work for collectors drawn to expressive interiors and stories of women’s lives.

