Portraits painted in oil and shadow, where the human face meets something older and stranger. From starlit women to creatures at the edge of dream—this is painting that remembers.
A painter drawn to faces, myths, and the strange creatures that live between them. Vera's work is rooted in the figurative tradition — oil on wood, pencil on paper — but pulled toward something darker and more personal than portraiture alone.
Her studio is a cabinet of curiosities: ink bottles, antique keys, a wall covered floor to ceiling in studies and obsessions. The paintings that come out of it carry that same sense of accumulation — layered, slow, full of things worth looking at twice.
She has been painting since she could hold a brush and has never really stopped asking the same question — what lives inside a face that a photograph can't reach? The answer, for her, is always another painting.
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— JAMES F., LONDON
“I've collected for twenty years. Vera's work stopped me the way very few things do — that immediate, physical sense that something in front of you matters. I own two pieces now and I'm waiting on a third.”
— SOPHIE D., PARIS
“There's a quality in her work that's very rare — it feels ancient and completely alive at the same time. The piece I own looks like it could have been painted in another century, and also like nothing else I've ever seen.”
— THOMAS & MARA K., VIENNA
“We commissioned a portrait as an anniversary gift and weren't prepared for how moved we'd be when we saw it. She didn't just paint a face — she painted something true about the person. We don't quite know how she did it.”
— ELENA R., NEW YORK
“I bought the painting before it was finished. I saw a photo of it mid-process and knew I couldn't let it leave without me. It hangs in my bedroom now and I still find things in it I hadn't noticed before.”
Have a face, a story, or a feeling you want to live on canvas? Tell her about it. Every commission begins with a conversation.
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