Gaela Erwin
S.P. as Salome, 2002
Oil on Panel
42" x 26"
 
Artist Bio
Inspired by the rich history of traditional portraiture, Gaela Erwin infuses her paintings with a sense of intimacy, rawness, and vulnerability, transporting the genre into the contemporary realm. Her painting style continues to be refined through studying 17th century pastel portraiture in person whenever possible. Erwin counts Pastellists like Rosalba Carriera, and Maurice Quentin de la Tour, and the painter Caravaggio, among her greatest inspirations.