Cassiopeia Original Painting by Aurora Kalos

Aurora Kalos returns often to celestial imagery and the strange interior life of her subjects, her portraits sitting between the hyperreal and the surreal. Cassiopeia — named for the constellation — draws on that recurring night-sky motif, holding a figure in the register of something close and impossibly distant at once.

Worked in oil on canvas, the painting reaches for the feeling of a clear mountain sky where every star is visible. Kalos treats the encounter like first sight — familiar and unknown together — and the square 60-centimeter format keeps figure and starfield in balance across the surface.

Oil on canvas · 2026 · 60 × 60 cm (23.6 × 23.6 in) · Unique work · Stretched on a wooden frame, ready to hang · Certificate of authenticity included.