Someone called them “the perfect story of what happens behind a closed-door” and, leafing through the many illustrations by Los Angeles-based artist Amanda Oleander, it’s not hard to see why.

Her works, which often feature a couple in love, are an honest and sincere representations of what happens during the most private moments of any close couple.
Caresses, stolen kisses under a shower, in front of the kitchen sink or in front of the bathroom mirror, moments spent on a sofa, during breakfast or during a plane trip.
Detailed photographs of small, normal moments that mean something more, that tell the simple attention that love makes.

Amanda Oleander, whose work is influenced by the aesthetics of artists such as Picasso and Tim Burton, was recently named by Pure Wow as one of the 100 Women Emerging In Culture and her work has appeared in publications such as The New York Mag, Seventeen, Cosmopolitan, Vanity Fair, and The Hollywood Reporter.

We have selected some of her illustrations but we suggest you follow her on Instagram and her personal website.