Oil and acrylic on board, with a hand painted ornate frame, 10.5x10.5x2cm. Contact us at info@louisemcnaught.com for purchase enquiries .
.A flicker of fire in the dark, the Orange Butterfly based on a Tortoiseshell Butterfly,  appears when something within you is ready to soften.
Its glowing wings carry the energy of the sacral creativity, emotion, connection, stirring what has been held still. Openness here is not exposure, but choice: the courage to feel, to trust, to let life move through you again. Edged in blue, it holds its own boundary—reminding you that true openness is sacred, not limitless.
The Spectrum of Souls series explores the soul as a shifting, luminous force, embodied through butterflies whose colours symbolise emotional and spiritual states—each one a quiet totem of transformation, perception, radiance, or openness, inviting the viewer to recognise something of their own inner world reflected back at them.