Memoirs by Faith Gaufo
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Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 100 x 100 cm
Year: 2024
Price: $1709.00 USD
Status: available
A woman with long flowing black hair, adorned with delicate facial embellishments, stands amidst three horses. Set against a backdrop of rose gold leaf, the scene evokes the warmth and expanse of a vast desert, symbolizing strength, resilience, and memories of the artist's grandparents who deeply loved horses. The dynamic use of oil pastels adds dimension to the horses' manes and the woman’s figure, while the cerulean accents convey the depth of family bonds and treasured memories. This piece is framed in black wood, shadow gap style, and is ready to hang.
Why collect this work?
The compressed grouping makes portraiture a shared field: the woman’s direct gaze is framed, partly concealed, and nearly crowded out by three horses, turning remembrance into an image of physical closeness rather than distant reflection.
- Gaufo’s profile describes a practice spanning portraiture, flora, and fauna. Here those interests converge, while the catalogue connects the horses to memories of her grandparents and identifies strength and family bonds as intended themes.
- A white horse recedes at left, while the cropped black-and-white horse at right dominates the foreground. Their opposing heads enclose the central figure; a copper-coloured motif across one side of her face complicates her otherwise steady gaze.
- The documented oil-on-canvas medium supports sharp tonal contrasts between pale manes, black bodies, and cerulean clothing. Across the photographed surface, smooth modelling meets a mottled copper-orange ground, separating the figures from any specific landscape.
- Dated 2024 and measuring 100 by 100 cm, Memoirs is a useful encounter with contemporary equestrian portraiture in which horses act as compositional agents, pressing inherited memory into the same pictorial space as human identity.
About the Artist
Faith Gaufo
Faith Gaufo is an artist on Mondoir Studio. Artistic discipline: Painting. Based in Dubai, AE.
Nationality: Filipino
My work is driven by curiosity and the beauty found in everyday moments.
