Tag: contemporary portrait

Amélie Yerly creates oil portraits that unfold slowly, built through delicate layers of glazing that reveal depth, emotion, and quiet presence over time. Rather than relying on bold colour or immediate impact, her work invites viewers to lean in, discovering the subtle tensions and dualities each face holds. Influenced by patience and intuition, her process allows each painting to evolve gradually, capturing not just appearance but the inner life beneath it. Her figures exist in a space between strength and fragility, visibility and privacy, where emotion is suggested rather than declared.…

Heidi Weiss creates paintings that sit between memory and interruption, drawing from paused television stills and transforming them into fragmented, emotionally charged compositions. Cropping, distortion, and layered oil surfaces allow her to withhold information, leaving viewers inside unresolved moments that feel both familiar and distant. Influenced by her background in painting and fiber art, her process embraces repetition, slowness, and accumulation, building surfaces that echo the instability of memory itself. Rather than telling complete stories, her work focuses on what lingers, the quiet tension, the partial view, the feeling that something…