Rendered in sweeping brushstrokes and bold, emotive colour, Envy captures the quiet storm behind a gaze that seems both wistful and wounded. The woman’s features—classic, sculptural, cinematic—evoke the glamour of a bygone era, yet her expression betrays something deeper. Her eyes do not just look; they search. Painted over a collage of vintage book pages, her face emerges from stories not her own, as though haunted by histories she was never written into.
Gabrielle Malak layers lilacs, ochres, rose, and shadow to create a portrait charged with both beauty and unease. Crimson tears subtly streak her cheek, blurring the line between vulnerability and defiance. Her lips are parted not in invitation, but interruption—as if caught mid-thought, mid-confession.