Green StrapsKayleigh

The whole canvas is yellow because I wanted it yellow. There is no reason beyond that and I am not going to invent one.

One of four canvases of the same woman, and in three of the four her mouth is open. I did not choose that either. It is simply what she does, and painting her four times is how I found out.

What do you do with it?

Inspired by a photograph of Kayleigh Swenson (@vikingbarbie).

Buying it is the easy part

The photograph this came from was made to be scrolled past. It got three seconds, if that. This canvas took weeks, and it will hang on a wall for years and be seen every day.

Ordering it takes a minute. Deciding where it goes is the part that takes nerve, because everyone who walks into that room will see it and think something. That part is yours.

About this work

Original oil on canvas. One of a kind.

• Size — 100 × 80 cm (height × width)
• Edition — one of one, signed. Not a print and not an edition.
• Series — Painted Idols, oil portraits of women who are looked at for three seconds at a time
• Studio — Boekel, the Netherlands
• Shipping — insured from the Netherlands, certificate of authenticity included