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Malvina (2026) Original Oil Painting by Zhanar Sagidolla
45.5 x 61 x 1.7cm (unframed) / 45.5 x 61cm (actual image size)
$700
Original artwork description
Malvina is an original contemporary figurative oil painting on canvas featuring a blue-haired female figure surrounded by pale butterflies against a vivid red background. Created with oil paint and oil pastel, this vertical portrait blends fantasy, symbolism, and expressive color to explore imagination, memory, and the way fairy tales continue to live within us as we grow older.
For me, Malvina is a symbol of a world where imagination feels just as real as reality.
Some images stay with us from childhood long after we stop thinking of ourselves as children. They change with us, becoming more complex, more personal, and sometimes more meaningful than they were at the beginning.
In this painting, I wanted to return to that feeling — when a fairy-tale image is no longer only a character, but becomes part of our inner world.
The female figure is calm and slightly distant, surrounded by butterflies that bring movement and lightness into the composition. For me, they suggest transformation, fragility, and the quiet persistence of memory.
The intense red background creates a strong emotional field, while the deep blue hair, blue eyes, and pale butterflies introduce a cooler, dreamlike contrast. I wanted the colors to feel almost unreal, as if the figure exists somewhere between memory and imagination.
The simplified forms and soft transitions of oil paint are combined with direct oil pastel lines, giving the surface both delicacy and spontaneity. The result is a portrait that feels familiar and strange at the same time.
Malvina is about the fairy tales that grow up with us. They may change their meaning, but they do not disappear. Sometimes they become a language through which we understand beauty, vulnerability, transformation, and ourselves.
With its vivid red and blue palette, symbolic butterflies, and contemporary figurative style, the painting can become a striking focal point in modern, eclectic, contemporary, bohemian, or gallery-inspired interiors.
Original One-of-a-Kind Artwork
Artist: Zhanar Sagidolla
Title: Malvina
Medium: Oil and Oil Pastel on Canvas
Size: 45.5 × 61 cm / approximately 18 × 24 in
Orientation: Vertical
Substrate: Canvas
Materials used:
Oil pastel, oil on canvas
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 45.5 x 61 x 1.7cm (unframed) / 45.5 x 61cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the back
- Style: Naive
- Subject: People and portraits
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Original artwork description
Malvina is an original contemporary figurative oil painting on canvas featuring a blue-haired female figure surrounded by pale butterflies against a vivid red background. Created with oil paint and oil pastel, this vertical portrait blends fantasy, symbolism, and expressive color to explore imagination, memory, and the way fairy tales continue to live within us as we grow older.
For me, Malvina is a symbol of a world where imagination feels just as real as reality.
Some images stay with us from childhood long after we stop thinking of ourselves as children. They change with us, becoming more complex, more personal, and sometimes more meaningful than they were at the beginning.
In this painting, I wanted to return to that feeling — when a fairy-tale image is no longer only a character, but becomes part of our inner world.
The female figure is calm and slightly distant, surrounded by butterflies that bring movement and lightness into the composition. For me, they suggest transformation, fragility, and the quiet persistence of memory.
The intense red background creates a strong emotional field, while the deep blue hair, blue eyes, and pale butterflies introduce a cooler, dreamlike contrast. I wanted the colors to feel almost unreal, as if the figure exists somewhere between memory and imagination.
The simplified forms and soft transitions of oil paint are combined with direct oil pastel lines, giving the surface both delicacy and spontaneity. The result is a portrait that feels familiar and strange at the same time.
Malvina is about the fairy tales that grow up with us. They may change their meaning, but they do not disappear. Sometimes they become a language through which we understand beauty, vulnerability, transformation, and ourselves.
With its vivid red and blue palette, symbolic butterflies, and contemporary figurative style, the painting can become a striking focal point in modern, eclectic, contemporary, bohemian, or gallery-inspired interiors.
Original One-of-a-Kind Artwork
Artist: Zhanar Sagidolla
Title: Malvina
Medium: Oil and Oil Pastel on Canvas
Size: 45.5 × 61 cm / approximately 18 × 24 in
Orientation: Vertical
Substrate: Canvas
Materials used:
Oil pastel, oil on canvas
Details:
- Oil painting on Canvas
- One of a kind artwork
- Size: 45.5 x 61 x 1.7cm (unframed) / 45.5 x 61cm (actual image size)
- Signed on the back
- Style: Naive
- Subject: People and portraits
