60 x 80 cm | Mixed media oil painting | 2025
Original painting by Brigita Bonas

First Touch is an intimate and arresting portrayal of desire suspended in time - a moment so charged it becomes sacred. Through richly layered mixed media and oil, the painting captures the soul-deep electricity of early connection: not through overt passion, but through anticipation.

Two figures dominate the canvas - a man leaning in with reverence, his face close, eyes almost closed, lips near the woman's hand. His expression is tender, grounded. The woman, in contrast, surrenders - her head tilted back in rapture, her throat exposed, hair cascading like velvet shadows. She is lost in the sensation, her ecstasy ignited not by possession, but by presence.

The color palette is sensual and elemental: deep violets, smoldering umbers, flashes of gold spray paint and textured earth tones blend into one another like memory and sensation. The background dissolves into abstraction, focusing all energy on the subtle tension between the two as if the entire universe has narrowed into this one, precise instant of touch.

Upon closer inspection, hints of collage and textured layering add depth and mystique, almost as if their bodies carry fragments of past stories or buried memories. The paint is applied with both delicacy and abandon - a balance of masculine intention and feminine surrender - perfectly echoing the polarity on display.

This is not a painting about lust - it is a painting about recognition. When two souls meet and the slightest contact becomes everything. It invites the viewer into a space where touch is prayer and passion is stillness.

Includes:
– Certificate of Authenticity
– Signature by Brigita Bonas
– Created using Biogeometry-inspired colour balancing techniques