DaraTheodora

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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.
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.
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.
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.
Allegorical surrealist painting of a man on a speckled horse with a human head in greens and blues. A woman looks on them and the hills.

Taliesin and the Spring of Vision. Oils on canvas. 24″x12″. 2024.

Inspired by Welsh Poet Vernon Watkins.
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.
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?
Magical realist painting of three people boating leisurely underneath a broken bridge. A city is in flames in the background and a bomb quietly falls upon the scene near the top border.

Pleasure Boating. Oil and tempera on canvas. 21″x28″. 2025.

Leisure in the time of collapse.
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″.

Never-a-Catholic Guilt. Inferno. Canterbury Cathedral.
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.
Mythological themed modern oil painting of Ariadne, shown primarily in a red dress. The left shows scenes in Knossos. The sails of Theseus dominate the center ground, and the right depicts the death of the minotaur and Dionysus.

Ariadne on the Broken Shore. Oils on canvas. 36″x24″. 2024.

Left-to-right visual representation of Ariadne’s story.
Contemporary expressionist piece with a circular composition. A three legged man turns away from a woman carrying a baby and a man. A house tilts towards the man leaving. A golden retriever lounges upward toward the house. A small windmill rests in the background.

The Parting Glass. Oils on canvas. 28″ x 22″. 2023.

Exploring the ambivalence of departure.
Dreamy oil painting of a black-haired girl sitting at a table by a pink curtained window with a black cat. A Vermont silo in the background.

When the Wind Hums. Oils on canvas. 20″x16″. 2022.

Dreaming of those Green Mountains.
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.
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.