Haloes.. #37

Another painting from L.W. Hawkins... Haloes around those delicate feminine golden angels, for whatever reason I cannot read haloes without thinking of aloes.
This is the kind of painting I can look at for hours, try to dive in and dream to be part of it..how does a skin of gold feel like, then is the airy hair. The book is obviously some key of the work, I imagine it to be the reflection of the painting itself, some sophisticated evocation of a situation mixing beauty and eroticism. And those fingers on the right nymph shoulder are really erotic.
For all these reasons, Hawkins has definitely a surrealist touch.