DaraTheodora

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Contemporary expressionist oil painting in yellow and purple depicting a jackal, a tiger, and a screaming three-legged woman between them. Within the background and her legs mystical figures hide. In the right corner, death, wielding a scythe, leers.

Tiger and Jackal. Oils on canvas. 24″x36″. 2024.

Expressionist self-portrait.
Surreal painting of a woman with heterochromia and very blonde hair in a white headdress, resting her chin on her hand, while holding a paintbrush. There's a celestial blue background, gold patterns representing fan vaulting, and three stained glass windows that make up a white horse. A checkerboard floor and pyramids make up the midground. In the foreground a painted hole representing the circles of hell show burning buildings and figures groping at each other. An ink well spills into the circles of hell.

Illumination. oil on board. 48″x48″. 2026.

Never-a-Catholic Guilt. Inferno. Canterbury Cathedral.
Surrealist tempera painting of a woman in a white dress flying above a ziggurat and pilgrims.

Leaving Babylon. Tempera on canvas. 36″x36″. 2025.

Pilgrimage, escape, collapse.
An owl woman with dark hair and sphere-like gold earrings opens up a vitrine of multi-colored books in her chest. They stand in dark room, walking on a rug turned ocean. Two windows show a distant landscape. A cheetah rests on the rug. Rotten fruit is at their feet.

A Pandora’s Box. 20″x20″. tempera on wood. 2026.

A muse, rotten fruit, a vitrine.
Magical realist piece of two figures in white robes or dresses dance in front of a starry circle. In the background, yellow plains and a few red flowers. The figures carry a pencil and a thread.

Star Charters. oils on canvas. 24″x24″. 2026.
Four couples dance on a wooden floor, only a wealthy couple in the middle look upright. The woman in the wealthy couple has a parakeet on her head, the man in a bright green shirt carries a cigarette. Flames and labanotation, the notation of dance, are in the background.

Dance of Disparity. Tempera on canvas. 20″x30″. 2025.

Inequality, Burn Out, and Relationship Stress.
Black and white surrealist tempera piece with a winged figure walking to the right where a hidden cloaked figure, a bifurcated skeleton man and wind-like faces...all corralled in a dark craggy landscape with houses in the distance.

The Benefactor, The Abdicator. 16″x16″. tempera on wood. 2025.

A mysterious occurrence in the Burren
Tempera and oil painting of two imposing Puritan figures, three women chasing a man, a girl holds an apple. Behind, a woman tied to a tree with a mob with torches coming towards them.

Perennial Witchhunt. Tempera and oil on canvas. 22″ x 28″. 2024.

Painted on November 6, 2024.
Magical realist tempera painting of a woman in a black dress and traditional Alsatian headdress with a chrysanthemum on her lounging on a large stone in a yellow field. A small black and white joins her. In the background the moon glows on the fields. Blueprints of World War I planes cover the blue sky.

La Debacle. Tempera on canvas. 24″x 24″. 2025.

Meditation on beauty and war.
Contemporary expressionist self-portrait piece of a figure reaching out from a pile of leaves to an abstract pink and blue grid of rain falling, then a small actual drop falls on her finger.

Dissociative Downpour. Tempera on canvas. 24″x24″. 2025.

Self-portrait with abstract rainfall.
Tempera painting of a dreamy interior. A dark haired woman in a striped shirt carrying a mug stands in front of a table with a vessel. The background is doubled, depicting how the eye focuses. Cats, rugs, delftware, and stairs are in the background in greens blues and pinks.

Interior Parallax. Tempera on canvas. 40″x30″. 2025.

Exploring parallax vision through a midcentury-inspired interior.
Magical realist folk oil painting figures in haystacks march towards the viewer. A man brushes dust off a porch to the right. Below a cat hunts a mouse.

The Rattle and Dim of the Haystack Men. Oils on canvas. 20″x16″. 2024.

Harvest time, dead or alive, won’t you avert your eye?
Contemporary tempera spectral portrait exploring presence, absence, and the in‑between states of being. A nude woman looks at the moon, shadowy figures and figurative echoes surround her.

Are You A Dead Ghost or a Living Ghost. Tempera on canvas. 16″x20″. 2024.

A temporal haunting.
Dreamy surrealist painting of a big white cat sleeping near a white Texas farmhouse and windmill. In the sky a deer with a star in the eye flies above the scene.

Midnight Radio. Oils on canvas. 28″x22″. 2023.

Dreams of Lytton Springs, Texas.
An surrealist oil painting of a yellow figure falling through space, surrounded by ribbons of a chronophotography inspired horse. Stars and living constellations dot the blue background.

Stole the Stars. Oil on canvas. 24″x36″. 2024.

Time, space, chronophotography.
Strange surrealist oil piece where a jester and a naked woman with a crown and three arms are in front of a yellow, pink, and blue expressionist background.

Go Tell the Bees. Oil on canvas. 36″x24″. 2023.

Exploring monarchy, harlequins, and propaganda.