The women in Saved
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An index, not an article: the whole series, grouped by the woman in it.
The paintings form a series called Saved. The subjects are women whose own image is their work — models who make a living from being looked at. The photographs are found online, saved, and one of them gets painted months later. Every painting carries her first name and credits the source photograph.
That is the whole method, and it is worth saying plainly, because it is the question people are too polite to ask. These are not anonymous nudes and they are not invented figures. They are twenty-two paintings of thirteen named women, made from images those women published themselves.
Painted more than once
- Riae — Orange Van · Blue Hair · Bathing in Red · Mobile Phone — and what only became visible once all four stood side by side.
- Kayleigh — Tattoos · Smile · Green Straps · Girls, with Emily
- Lindsey — White Blouse · The Mirror
- Deelee — Golden Girl · Black Straps
- Natalee — White Top · Blue Light
Painted once
- Dana (Black Bikini)
- Kindly (On Gold)
- Dakota (Pink Bikini)
- Marisol (Bubblegum)
- Veronika (American Girl)
- Dailey (Illustrated)
- Pandora (Dreaming in Blue)
- Elisa (Appetite)
The series as a whole
- All the paintings in Saved — the full collection.
- How the work is made — from a found photograph to a finished canvas.
- About the painter
Questions people ask
Who are the women in the paintings?
They are models whose own image is their work — women who make a living from being looked at. Each painting carries her first name and credits the source photograph. Thirteen women appear across the twenty-two canvases in the series.
Are the paintings made from photographs?
Yes. The photographs are found online, saved, and one of them is painted months later. The gap matters: what survives months of sitting in a folder is usually not the most explicit image but the one that keeps being interesting.
Why is the series called Saved?
Because that is literally what happens first. An image gets saved — kept, set aside, not scrolled past. The painting comes much later, and only for a few of them.
Do the women know about the paintings?
I tell them. Every woman whose photograph has become a painting has been contacted about it, which is why most of them know the work exists. Not everyone replied, and I read nothing into that in either direction. Telling someone is not the same as asking them, and I am not offering it here as consent.