Laura Pretto Vargas

Solstice radiates with the warmth and rhythm of a turning season—a painting alive with the emotional charge of transition, where light meets shadow and fire meets sky. Bathed in molten oranges, smoldering pinks, and stormy blues, this composition evokes both intensity and softness, movement and stillness.

 

The layers unfold like a memory—impressionistic and raw. Fiery streaks of orange crash into cool expanses of blue-gray, mimicking the collision between passion and introspection. Wisps of crimson and blush rise like smoke or breath, drawing the eye toward a central glow that pulses with quiet energy.

 

The brushwork is gestural, immersive—suggesting a moment suspended between endings and beginnings. Like the solstice itself, this piece holds opposing forces in balance: the heat of longing and the chill of distance, the beauty of release and the tension of anticipation.

 

Solstice is a meditation on threshold moments—the kind that change you slowly, then all at once.