Exotica

Ouida’s exotic paintings are of peoples of the earth that she actually saw during her travels.  She was most inspired to paint traditional women, whose lifestyle, customs and regalia remained intact. Through Ouida’s eyes one sees quixotic girls in colorful tropical settings.  While traveling in Korea she saw the lotuses which rise above the water and fruit and flower simultaneously. She’d never seen anything like them before and thought they were wonderfully exotic and subsequently added them to many of her landscapes.