Therese Raquin

(After Emile Zola)

oil, acrylic, oil pastels and oil sticks on canvas

80 x 60 cm

2026

Three figures in a boat. A moment suspended between desire and destruction. Roza’s signature impasto brings an almost unbearable physical urgency to one of literature’s most transgressive women. Therese and Laurent were not murderers . They were simply people, who lived entirely for their instincts. And yet, once born, cannot be outrun. It is that eternal weight, ending only in double suicide, that gives the story it’s power.

The women who were punished for wanting too much.