She Who Greets with Fire 2021

Camilla d’Errico’s painting, "She Who Greets with Fire," glows with reds, pinks, and peaches. Imagine the artist layering those tones, shifting and building, to create that gorgeous, dreamy effect. I wonder what d’Errico was thinking when she made this? It’s got such a unique feel. It reminds me of when I’m in the studio, and I get into this zone where the painting starts to guide me. Check out how she handles texture – that hazy, atmospheric sky contrasting with the sharp focus of the girl’s face and the unicorn’s mane. It's like she’s playing with different ways of seeing, different levels of reality. That contrast in textures, that tension, helps carry a lot of the emotional weight of the painting. You see it in other contemporary figurative painters and how they're pushing the boundaries of storytelling and representation. And that’s what painting's about—a constant exchange, artists riffing off each other across time, sparking new ideas and ways of seeing the world.