Welcome to the
Butterfly Release
The Butterfly Series: Transformation and Light
Butterflies mark a moment of change—quiet, powerful, irreversible.
This series explores transformation through color, texture, and light. Each piece reflects movement between states: grief to hope, stillness to motion, earth to heaven. These are both studies of nature and symbols of becoming.
Featured Paintings
2024
Oil on canvas, framed
24” x 30”
This painting calls to mind feelings of balance, unity, and grounding, centering, symmetry. This painting features a background of neutral colors and references the winding path of life. Circles are indicative of celestial bodies and primary pastels add just a hint of color. The Luna moth is a symbol of the night, grace, and elegance. The smooth texture of the oil paint on the moth’s body is meant to create an experience of deep and moving serenity.
The Collector should note that the thick white lines in the background of the painting appear more light pink than pictured here in the photograph.
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“Radiant Spirit”
2021
Acrylic on canvas
64” x 74”
Bursting with positive energy, this butterfly entitled “Radiant Spirit” is the second in the series of large-scale color studies of butterflies. The symbol of a butterfly is one of dance, movement, and transformation.
The butterfly shape lies stationary in the center of the canvas and yet, the abstract background, abstract shapes, as well as the undefined and multi-defined edges provide an amazing amount of movement. As your eye travels around the piece, you will find pockets of joy; wrapped in color. Color bursts emanate from this central force to reveal feelings of love, peace, and joy.
Warm tones shine in this painting. When the light hits it a certain way, iridescent pigments glimmer with blue opal, white pearl, and subtle hints of fuchsia.
This piece was painted using NovaColor acrylic paint; which is a highly respected, top-quality brand. This artwork was painted on un-stretched canvas, and has been stretched, so some natural variations in texture occur.
It is my hope that you are completely satisfied in your investment in my artwork and that it gives you joy for years to come!
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“Balance=Myth”
2024
Oil on canvas, framed
24” x 36”
Big-butterfly energy sustains the heart. I don’t want to sleep. I move, dance, twist, swing, shout, jump, dive into a pool of sparkling joy! Glitter-bug, darling, don’t let anyone or anything keep you down.
Be yourself and shine on.
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Bend Artist Paints Big Butterflies: Painting Nature as Sacred: A Political Act
Bend, Oregon - June 17th, 2024 - Dominique Ovalle-Kongsli Fine Art Studio is excited to present “Creation Sings”, Dominique Ovalle-Kongsli’s second exhibition at Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s International Realty in Downtown Bend. A suite of bold, colorful, and vibrant butterfly and moth paintings float through the hall gallery, behind the main showroom. Welcome to the butterfly release.
Dominique Ovalle-Kongsli weaves images of colorful moths and butterflies into textured backgrounds using painterly edges and gripping brushstrokes, and with a touch of sparkle. These paintings feel expansive, energetic, and offer a grounding sense of symmetry.
Rich visual narratives accompany the observation of butterfly wings. The space surrounding the lepidopterans (moths and butterflies) offer supporting details: patterns, texture, and intricacies are laid out in swoops from her palette knife and swishes from her paintbrush. Iridescent pigments and mixed media refract light, similar to how butterfly scales do so in nature.
The lepidopterans are the main emphasis in these works, yet the backgrounds offer a chorus of delight. Dominique found inspiration in Moroccan Berber rugs and Mexican piñatas. Berber rugs have inspired modern interior design environments for decades and piñatas reference her Mexican American heritage and joy. “The overlapping scales of butterfly wings mirror the texture found on both rugs and piñatas, and so sampling my inspiration was a way to add both pattern and texture to create a cohesive painting,” Dominique writes.
Ancient and modern graphic symbols and typography are sprinkled into the paintings which can refer to our shared humanity and our ever-evolving ways in which humans communicate information.
The butterfly motif can represent transformation, victory over death, new beginnings, and the rebirth of knowledge. Dominique uses the butterfly as an abstract symbol of her faith—specifically an abstraction of the “Risen Christ”.
Dominique writes, “My intention is to create joyful paintings which show the innate goodness of nature and to bring social and ecological consciousness and truth to the traditional visual art landscape. As both a classically trained oil painter and a former street artist, I merge the worlds of pop culture, and old-school oil painting, and I infuse my work with light-filled symbols of hope and transformation.
My subject matter, gathered from free-source university collections of lepidoptera, are painted in an accessible, neo-impressionist, abstract-representational style. Think: Richard Schmid meets Barbie, meets Patagonia. I consider my work to be both political and sacred—I utilize concepts of beauty, goodness, and truth to elevate the care and love of the earth and creation—as a political act. This is my devotion to Christ. I bring awareness of our responsibility to care for our one wild and precious planet through painting beautiful things, beautifully.”