Honey

She doesn’t chase beauty. She is it.

Honey is a portrait of stillness and power — a woman with cascading auburn curls crowned with golden blooms and bees, draped in a dramatic black gown, a vintage bee cameo resting at her chest. The world around her hums with warmth, all liquid gold and sunlit amber, as if the light itself has chosen her.

Painted in a richly textured, expressive oil style, this piece is a celebration of the wild and the feminine — of something ancient and alive, all at once.

— Ilee DeSoto