The Abduction of a Sabine Woman, Oil on canvas, 60" x 48"
Giambologna’s Sabine reimagined as mutual harmony, celebrating sensual unity. Glazes glow with shared pleasure, not force; electric connection, bodies in rhythmic balance. Oil transforms conflict into beauty. Classical tragedy reborn in modern tenderness and beauty.
In 2024, after twenty years in healthcare administration and raising a family, I returned to full-time painting. Healthcare revealed that beauty coexists with pain, visible through sustained study. My hyperrealist oils embody this: classical nudes like Ugolino and His Sons, The Abduction of a Sabine Woman, and Laocoön's torso, built in translucent glazes until marble fractures into flesh-like warmth. Luminous hyper-detailed surfaces read with equal precision from a single curve to six-foot scale. Light caresses form, shifting tragedy to tenderness, anguish veiled in resilience, torsal strain alchemized into luminous poise. This return is a quiet continuation: patient layers reframing mythic bodies as sanctuaries of grace, newly seen in the 21st century. Through these reinterpretations, empathy emerges from fragmentation, inviting contemporary dialogue on the enduring human form.