Perserverance, acrylic on canvas, modern realism, female portrait with flowers2019

“Perserverance” is a stunning painting on canvas by Erin Cone, depicting an elegant female portrait wearing a red dress and flowers in her hair. The background is white. Erin’s paintings have captured a fusion of aesthetics all her own – combining the compositional strength of abstraction with the emotive power of magical realism to create something completely new. “I emphasize visual impact over narrative context, focusing on the subtle orchestration of my subject within a framework of design. I create a deliberate push-and-pull between near-photorealistic detail and my own vocabulary of visual glitches that challenge that very realism. This duality is central to my work and allows the figures I paint to remain wholly representational while functioning abstractly – evoking emotion without defining it.”