Two Women Portrait, Folky Acrylic on Canvas

A bold, original acrylic painting of two serene women with closed eyes, heads tilted toward each other in a quiet, tender pose. They wear green hooded shawls and yellow tops against colour-blocked panels of periwinkle, aqua and pink. Their hair is painted as grey bands with blue or pink leopard-style spots, and the whole scene is set inside a black border covered in a hand-painted paisley pattern in cream, grey and yellow. The modernist, folk-inspired style is reminiscent of Picasso's elongated faces, icon painting and folk art. The paint is applied thickly in places, which gives it real texture and depth. It's signed "E.S." with the year lower left. It's framed in a simple black wood frame, and it's a large, eye-catching piece that would suit an eclectic, maximalist or colourful space.