"Doree " - Gold Figurative Portrait (2026) Original Mixed-media Painting by Kseniia Turik

Dorée emerged from a quiet act of self-observation — a figure half-revealed, half-withheld, framed by a cascade of gold that falls like hair, like light, like armor. The body is wrapped in a deep black-green dress, its surface alive with strokes of emerald, gold, soft blue and violet, built up through layers of textured paste that catch the light differently with every angle of view.
There's a tension here between concealment and presence: the face is barely sketched, almost erased, while the gold around it is dense, tactile, insistent. I wanted the viewer to feel that they're looking at someone who is both fully here and just out of reach — the way memory holds a person's shape long after the details have faded.
The palette draws loosely on Klimt's instinct for ornament and Modigliani's elongated calm, but the gesture is entirely physical — built with a palette knife, layered paste, and lacquer that pools and catches light like real gold leaf.

Materials used:

Acrylic, white pumice textured pasta, varnish

Details:

• Mixed-media painting on Canvas
• One of a kind artwork
• Size: 100 x 130 x 3cm (unframed)
• Ready to hang
• Signed on the front
• Style: Expressive and gestural
• Subject: People and portraits