Gustav Klimt - Hygieia, 1931

The goddess of health, taken from Klimt's Medicine ceiling and standing alone. She is wrapped from shoulder to floor in a robe worked in scarlet and gold spirals, a serpent winds up her raised forearm to a shallow bowl, and there is a gold collar at her throat with more spirals in it. Behind her the ground is flat grey and tells you nothing.

A single ornamented figure against a plain ground, which is the whole challenge. Finished size 48 x 69cm.