Portrait with Red Flower, 2024

9 × 12 inches

Color pencil on paper

This intimate color pencil portrait depicts a female figure framed closely by lush green leaves, her face softly illuminated against a pale blue sky. A red flower tucked into her hair echoes the warm blush of her cheeks and lips, giving the image a sense of quiet ceremony, as if she is both emerging from and being claimed by the surrounding garden. Her direct gaze is calm and slightly hypnotic, inviting a moment of still attention.

The drawing is rendered in layered colored pencil, with subtle transitions of color creating a velvety, tactile surface. Warm skin tones are balanced by saturated greens and deep reds, while the visible pencil grain lends the work a hand-made, timeless quality. The symmetry of the composition and the closeness of the framing lend the portrait a devotional presence, somewhere between folk icon and personal talisman.

Part of Amalia’s ongoing mythic-natural universe, Portrait with Red Flower reflects a recurring theme in her work: the merging of feminine identity with the natural world. This original, one-of-a-kind drawing will appeal to collectors drawn to symbolic portraiture, quiet intensity, and images that feel both tender and archetypal.

Details

– Original color pencil drawing

– Size: 9 × 12 inches

– Signed by the artist

– Ships flat with archival protection

A small but resonant work, rich in presence and intimacy.