Elizabeth - El Refugio sobre el Islote de Roca

Artwork by artist Elizabeth created with the high-quality professional oil on canvas technique. Diptych. 2 paintings. Each frame measures 50 x 70 cm. Overall dimensions 70 x 100 cm.

Excellent opportunity to acquire 2 paintings that can also work individually.

Shipping will be carried out through United Parcel Service (UPS) for Spain and Europe, and through FedEx for the rest of the world. The artwork will be rolled and protected with multiple layers of packaging, bubble wrap, and placed in a sturdy tube. Once the work is paid for, three days are required for packaging and handover to the shipping company. The piece will reach you within ten days, depending on the destination country.

The Cuban painter Elizabeth (professional training), based and active in Havana, develops a series of dreamlike landscapes where domestic architecture rests on suspended rocks and impossible balances. Her compositions —between the sea and the celestial— offer a poetic reflection on shelter, memory, and the fragility of what is livable. With an atmospheric handling of the sky and a vibrant palette of blues, pinks, and greens, the artist creates scenes of intense emotional luminosity: lit windows, smoky chimneys, stairs that ascend, trees blooming at improbable heights. The work combines precision in detail with expressiveness in matter, achieving images with strong visual and narrative impact, capable of coexisting between contemplation and wonder.

These Elizabeth pieces build a universe where the house —that intimate symbol of refuge— becomes a poetic idea more than an architecture: it appears suspended, anchored to impossible rocks, balanced on stone towers, isolated on tiny islets as if the real world had been reduced to the essential. There is a quiet narrative in every scene: the staircase that climbs toward the uncertain, the smoke rising from a chimney as a sign of life, the lit windows that warm the remote, and the trees that, even at improbable heights, unfold as a promise of continuity.

Thematically, it is, at bottom, a metaphor about belonging and balance: to “inhabit” is not just to be in a place, but to sustain it. Elizabeth turns landscape into an emotional state. The rock —heavy, ancient— appears worked with volume and nuance, with colors ranging from violet to ochre and from deep blue to mossy greens, as if each rock held memory and time. On top of it, life: red roofs, illuminated wood, lush foliage. That tension between the solid and the fragile, between the stable and the suspended, is where the work breathes most strongly.

C cromatic there is a clear decision: wide, atmospheric skies loaded with clouds that function as stage and as music. Color is not limited to “describing”; it interprets. The blues become ocean and distance; the pinks and oranges of twilight bring a luminous melancholy; the greens, at times intense, introduce hope and freshness. The brushwork alternates between soft areas (skies and glazes) and more emphatic moments in the foliage and rock, where there is a taste for contrast and texture. The result is an image with great legibility —almost like a tale— but with symbolic depth that avoids mere decoration.

Also notable is the compositional sense: Elizabeth knows how to guide the gaze with clear routes (stairs, railings, diagonal cliffs, curves of trunks) and to create centers of interest without saturating. Birds, waves, the stones in the foreground, or door and balcony details are not accessories: they are signs that activate the scene, small “proofs” of reality within a world that allows the impossible. That blend of fantasy and emotional truth places these works in a territory close to magical realism painting: a place where the extraordinary does not surprise, it simply happens.

This oil painting on canvas is framed within figurative surrealism with a marked influence of fantastic illustration, featuring a strong overhead lighting that enhances the volume of the clouds and the texture of the stone. The painter uses a vertical composition to emphasize the hierarchy of the exuberant tree that emerges directly from the wooden cabin, suggesting a metaphor about the origin of life and the persistence of nature above human constructions. Through dynamic brushstrokes in the foliage and a chromatic contrast between the deep blues of the ocean and the warm orange of the tiles, the artist manages to convey a sense of utopian peace and absolute freedom, inviting the viewer to imagine an inaccessible sanctuary where time stands still and the elements coexist in perfect balance.