The Cowgirl — Noemi

oils Palette: Cream · Deep red · Tangerine · Gold · Teal · Warm ivory · Dark walnut · White Mood: Western feminine power · Self-assured portraiture · The artist as her own best subject The paint throughout is loose and luminous — Fleming's oils moving with their characteristic fluid intelligence, the background built in layered, gestural strokes, the figure emerging from it with the slow inevitability of someone who was always going to be the most interesting person in this particular painting.

This is a self-portrait as mythology — the artist as cowgirl, as Western heroine, as the woman in the good hat who paints the horses and names the colors and decides, entirely for herself, what the story is going to be. Collector's Note: The Cowgirl is Fleming's most personally charged work — a self-portrait that carries the full weight of an artist who has spent years developing a singular vision and arrived, finally, at the confidence to put herself in the frame. The burning red background, the equine witnesses, the perfect hat — every element is a deliberate declaration. A statement piece for collectors who understand that the most powerful art is always, in the end, about the person who made it.