“A Small Duet” at Meyer Gallery, Park City, February 24, 2023

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Join us for a small painting show featuring Fatima Ronquillo and Adalynne Ellsworth at the Meyer Gallery in Park City on Friday, February 24th, from 6-8PM, coinciding with the Park City Gallery Stroll. Please contact Meyer Gallery for inquiries.

“A Small Duet” is a group of small works that were initially inspired by the beautiful album “Secret Love Letters” by the wonderful violinist Lisa Batiashvili. The romantic music and the idea of love in its different iterations and journeys―from secret hidden desires, hope, fulfillment and loss―conjured up images of lovers and songbirds and springtime.

“Hand and Lovers’ Eyes with a Background of Flames” ©2023 Fatima Ronquillo 7×5 inches, oil on aluminum panel

These two paintings with the background of flames are a reference to Elizabethan miniature paintings by Nicholas Hilliard and Isaac Oliver. The flames were representative of passionate love or religious devotion, and the poetic imagery has always attracted me in the way it evokes mystery and courtly love.

“Beloved with a Background of Flames” ©2023 Fatima Ronquillo, oil on aluminum panel,10 x 8 inches
“Girl with Hyacinth, Primrose and Fritillary” ©2023 Fatima Ronquillo 10×10 inches, oil on aluminum panel
“Hand with Lover’s Eye, Horned Lark and Spring Flowers” ©Fatima Ronquillo 10×10 inches, oil on aluminum panel
“Nightingale Nocturne” ©2023 Fatima Ronquillo, oil on aluminum panel, 12 x 12 inches
“Clasped Hands with Hermit Thrushes, Nest and Lover’s Eye” ©2023 Fatima Ronquillo 12×12 inches, oil on aluminum panel
“Echo Weeping for Narcissus” ©2023 Fatima Ronquillo 10×8 inches, oil on aluminum panel
“Martyred Lover” ©2023 Fatima Ronquillo oil on aluminum panel, 16×12 inches