With eyes licked by the flames of hell – one of a pair of cranial relics set in a shrine beside the martyr’s sarcophagus in the catacombs beneath the village of the penitents.

This original oil painting by Colombian-born artist Maria Pia Mosquera is drawn from the series The Penitents, which gives us a glimpse into a surreal and absurd dream, a place where the modern world and folklore intertwine, and the boundary between life and death is blurred.

Approx. 15.5 inches diameter
Oil on board
Cradle mount 23mm frame

PLEASE NOTE: This piece ships from Australia and can take up to three weeks to arrive.

Maria Pia Mosquera (b. 1977) is a Colombian-born artist and designer, based in Sydney, Australia. Her current work explores our ambiguous relationship with death through imagery that challenges the macabre with wry humour, using the pervasive religious symbolism of Hispanic culture to bring the otherworldly into the everyday. Her work is held in various private collections in Australia and overseas.