Ali Cavanaugh with her watercolors characterized by a dreamlike and evanescent atmosphere wants to capture the soul of her subjects or to put it in her own words:

“Tender unseen presence that transcends understanding in the depth of a soul.”

How do we capture the soul? What is a soul?

It does not matter the answer, but the attempt to represent these universal themes through imagination and the own way of making art. The artist, based in St. Louis, refers to the works as “modern frescoes”.
The beauty of her works lies in the idea of being able to capture something indefinable, which almost seems like a hologram, in the smallest details. In fact, paradoxically, the frescoes can be ethereal, indefinite and dreamlike, but at the same time very realistic and full of accurate finishing.

We just have to explore her website, which you can find here.