Regal - Naïve Art by YLR

A dark head fills the centre of the cloth: a wide black afro above a brown face with violet lips and long silver drop earrings. A yellow crescent sits behind the head like a halo. In each corner a yellow triangle is filled with black scrollwork, and the ground between them is left as bare cream weave, so the figure sits inside a pattern rather than a scene.

Acrylic on cotton, the flat colour laid straight onto the weave with the linework drawn over it. Yahaira Lidia Reyes Jimenez paints as Naïve Art by YLR, a self-taught artist working in the naïve and folk tradition and drawing on her Dominican and Afro-Caribbean heritage. Available as a poster or fine art canvas print in multiple sizes.