Hunting Bitch – Artwork

Oil paint on canvas. 50 × 60 cm, 2026.

Mythic charge becomes immediate and physical.

Hunting Bitch belongs to the same constellation as Daydream: a reclamation of heroic image-making for female force, rage, and agency. The title nods to Artemis, the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt and wilderness, whose mythology is closely bound to wild animals, hunting dogs, and female autonomy; in later retellings, even the word bitch can be turned back against its history as an insult and reclaimed as a mark of ferocity, loyalty, instinct, and power. Artemis was imagined as a huntress moving with her retinue through the wild, and some traditions even describe her as accompanied by seven hunting bitches given to her by Pan. 

In this painting, that mythic charge becomes immediate and physical. A warrior woman surges forward among snarling beasts and fire, borrowing the visual grammar of battle painting while refusing its usual male center. The work does not present femininity as passive beauty or allegory, but as attack, command, and untamed presence — a heroine emerging from the animal, the sacred, and the militant all at once. This places Hunting Bitch firmly within the same field as Daydream, which likewise borrows Old Master battle imagery in order to shift agency back into female hands. 

“She enters the old theatre of battle not as prey, but as the force that breaks the hunt open.”