Using light strokes and soft pastel shades, Sophie von Hellermann paints romantic portraits and airy landscapes inspired by contemporary icons, affairs and literature. Her paintings are known for their dreamy, childlike quality, illustrating figures in fictional spaces by applying pure pigment directly onto unprimed canvas and using broad-brushed washes to imbue a sense of weightlessness. Sophie’s whimsical works deal with various real-world topics whilst pulling from her subconscious and imagination, making us tenderly test fiction against reality.