Ursula

Ursula is an original acrylic painting on a repurposed 24" x 24" canvas — a portrait of a woman in profile, composed with the richness and symbolic complexity of a modern icon. She faces left, her sharp profile — dark dramatic brow, grey-blue eye, full red lips, rosy cheek — set against a deep black ground. Behind her head, a large golden fan spreads open like a halo, its surface covered in a repeating pattern of raised gold circles, luminous and textured. From her ear hangs an ornate drop earring — gold filigree at the top, a dark oval drop below. Her dress is rendered as a dense pattern of interlocking silver circles, like chain mail — cool and graphic against the warm gold of the fan. Above her, the black background gives way to a swirl of abstract marks in white and red — loose, gestural, energetic — suggesting water in motion. Through these marks, a koi fish leaps: white and vivid orange, its body arcing gracefully through the composition as if emerging from her thoughts or her world. The entire painted scene sits within a border of dark, richly textured brown-gold — painted to suggest aged wood or lacquered frame — giving the whole work the feeling of something ancient and considered. Pure paint, pure symbolism, pure Ursula. A one-of-a-kind original by Branka, created once and never again.

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