Amarelo Sun — Heritage Trilogy 2 of 3

Sun is the second painting in Heritage Trilogy — a series of three works about the Brazil I carry inside me, and the three years I have been unable to return.
A field of warm cadmium yellow fills the centre of the canvas, held within a precise white border. Below and to the right, a sweeping arc of textured modelling paste moves across the surface — carrying blue, yellow and green in a single fluid gesture. The arc is the same in all three paintings. What changes is the dominant colour, and what that colour holds.
The yellow is the sun. Specifically, the fact that it is the same sun.
When distance becomes permanent in a way you did not plan for, you find comfort in the things that do not change with geography. The light that falls on my mother’s hands in Rio de Janeiro is the same light that falls on mine in Sydney. That sameness is not a small thing. This painting is about that.
The modelling paste surface develops natural fissures as it cures — evidence of the material’s physical depth and the layered process of making. Each fissure is part of the work’s surface history.
Signed on the verso. Fitted with D-ring hardware and picture wire — ready to hang.
Available individually (AUD $220) or as a complete trilogy — Ocean, Sun, Forest — for AUD $580. Contact the artist for set inquiries.

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“I spent years searching for hidden treasures. I didn’t know I was the treasure all along.”

Born in Rio de Janeiro — a city of impossible colour, salt air and uncontainable energy — Liz Souza spent 15 years crossing continents before she ever picked up a brush.
She lived in the rural United States, where vast landscapes taught her stillness. She drove through the Abu Dhabi desert for two years, moved by its ancient silence and vastness — a landscape so breathtaking it brought her to tears more than once. She walked the museums of Europe, absorbed New York’s relentless creative pulse, and raised three children across four countries — carrying faith as her only constant.
She came to painting not through art school, but through a lifelong visual hunger — years of museums, landscapes and a deep sensitivity to form that finally found its language on canvas.
Liz works with acrylic, sculptural texture and golden leaf — building thick, tactile surfaces that hold what words cannot. Her work carries the weight of lived experience: the heat of a Rio summer, the silence of a desert highway, the ache of years away from home, the quiet miracle of beginning again.
Every canvas is an excavation. Every texture, a layer of a life fully lived.
Based in Sydney, Australia.