Oil on wood, ready to hang.

Signed on the back.

This is a painting from the artist's 2017 solo exhibition "A Night In". Courtney has always been drawn to paintings of the Neo-classical genre because of the use of
striking color, dramatic light and elegant clothing. However, the expressionless women swallowed
up by silk and satin and posed in static posture in that genre created an emotional void, which
she moves to fill. In her work, these women embrace the elegant and formal nature of fashion
and painting, yet are seen not as the passive wearer of garments but as the focus of a dramatic
interlude that embraces elegance and feminine sensuality.