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Artist Kurtis Rykovich creates whymsical, fairytale-like, and sometimes slightly twisted paintings of  female characters, which he endearingly refers to as “souls”  brought to life upon his wooden canvases with animal-like features, beautiful hair, extravagant outfits and big beautiful eyes that say so much. Kurtis says, “I am not so much inspired by the history you learn in textbooks, but I am more drawn to the history of an individual, maybe never documented, and how that history has created such a beautiful or slightly eerie being.”

 Kurtis creates these visions of beauty whose stories appear to be shrouded in ornate clothing and effortless hair, but when observed at more then just a glance you will get a taste of what they have been through or perhaps what they lack.