Oil painting of a translucent yellow couture dress by Dide Siemmond, floating against a deep black background, rendered with luminous layers and sculptural folds that give the garment a human-like presence. The sheer fabric glows in shades of yellow, lemon, chartreuse and soft green, with subtle highlights and shadowed seams suggesting movement, fragility and identity without a visible wearer.
Oil painting of a translucent yellow couture dress by Dide Siemmond, floating against a deep black background, rendered with luminous layers and sculptural folds that give the garment a human-like presence. The sheer fabric glows in shades of yellow, lemon, chartreuse and soft green, with subtle highlights and shadowed seams suggesting movement, fragility and identity without a visible wearer.
Oil painting of a translucent yellow couture dress by Dide Siemmond, floating against a deep black background, rendered with luminous layers and sculptural folds that give the garment a human-like presence. The sheer fabric glows in shades of yellow, lemon, chartreuse and soft green, with subtle highlights and shadowed seams suggesting movement, fragility and identity without a visible wearer.
Oil painting of a translucent yellow couture dress by Dide Siemmond, floating against a deep black background, rendered with luminous layers and sculptural folds that give the garment a human-like presence. The sheer fabric glows in shades of yellow, lemon, chartreuse and soft green, with subtle highlights and shadowed seams suggesting movement, fragility and identity without a visible wearer.
Dide

PORTRAIT OF A DRESS (Original)

*Won the Society of Women Artists’ Young Artist Award*

This work explores presence, identity, and observation through an unexpected subject. Rather than portraying a sitter, Dide turns her attention to the garment itself - a translucent, sculptural dress rendered with extraordinary sensitivity and control.

Painted in oil on Italian linen, the piece captures the tension between solidity and fragility. The luminous yellow fabric appears to hover against the dark ground, its folds, seams, and translucency described with forensic precision. Light moves across the surface as if it were skin, giving the object a psychological presence that feels quietly human.

Loosely inspired by Andreas Kronthaler’s MM corset dress for Vivienne Westwood’s Spring–Summer 2022 collection, the painting resists fashion illustration in favour of contemplation. It asks where identity resides - in the body, the object, or the act of looking itself.

Recognised with the Society of Women Artists’ Karin Walker Young Artist Award and selected across multiple major UK prize exhibitions, the work exemplifies Dide’s ability to balance technical mastery with restraint – creating paintings that hold intensity without spectacle and reward prolonged attention.

Material: Oil on Italian Linen
Size: Framed 48 x 38cm 

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