Tag: portrait painting

Sarah Rutherford is a British painter who returned to her artistic practice after stepping away from painting to pursue a career in marketing. Working primarily in oils, she creates portraits and still lifes that look beyond surface appearances to explore character, emotion, and the stories objects carry.

Cristina Chirilă creates layered portraits that explore the complex emotions, memories, and contradictions beneath the surface of a recognisable face. Working across painting, photography, and installation, she uses fragmentation, blurring, and overpainting to challenge how we see and understand identity.

Perth-based artist Rachelle Dusting brings portraiture, still life and symbolism together in paintings that explore womanhood, heritage, identity and transformation. Through her luminous oil paintings, she invites us to look closely at the people, objects and stories that shape who we are.

Dominika Luszcz creates contemporary portraits of women surrounded by flower wreaths, embroidered textiles, and earthy colors inspired by Polish folklore. Her paintings explore heritage, identity, nature, renewal, and belonging while reinterpreting traditional imagery through her own contemporary style.

Discover the creative journey of Joanna Pilarczyk, from her childhood in Poland and television-inspired colour palette to her vibrant figurative paintings in London.

Joan Cox has spent more than twenty-five years exploring the figure, creating intimate oil paintings that centre queer women and the ordinary moments of their lives. Her couples appear in homes, parks, bedrooms, and everyday settings, surrounded by the objects, animals, books, clothing, and details that reveal who they are. Drawing from art history while reimagining familiar compositions through contemporary queer perspectives, Joan creates paintings that give women who love women space to exist on their own terms. Her work challenges the tradition of depicting women primarily through the male gaze,…

Discover the Portraits Virtual Exhibition by Women in Arts Network, featuring an inspiring collection of women artists from around the world. Through painting, photography, textiles, sculpture, and mixed media, these selected works explore identity, memory, emotion, culture, and human connection, revealing how portraiture continues to evolve as one of art's most powerful forms of storytelling.

Discover five groundbreaking self-portraits by women artists who transformed the way identity is represented in art. From Sofonisba Anguissola to Frida Kahlo, explore the stories, symbolism, and lasting impact behind these iconic works.

For more than two decades, Gala Gilan has developed a contemporary figurative painting practice that combines technical realism with emotional depth, quiet atmosphere, and thoughtful observation. Working primarily in oil, she uses light not simply to define form but to shape mood, memory, and the subtle emotional presence within each portrait. Rather than creating exact likenesses, Gala's paintings leave space for mystery, inviting viewers to bring their own experiences and interpretations into every work. Inspired by everyday moments, personal relationships, and the enduring language of realism, she explores how portraiture can…

Lauryna Rakauskaitė creates luminous portraits that shift the idea of what a face can hold, not weight or tension, but warmth, stillness, and quiet presence. Her paintings glow from within, using soft color, open space, and gentle gestures to create an emotional atmosphere rather than a fixed narrative. After more than a decade away from art, she returned to painting with urgency, driven by something she could no longer ignore. This return brings a freshness to her work, where exploration and intuition guide each piece. Rather than directing emotion, she allows…