Publisher's blurb:
Aesthetics and erotics become one and the same, when three women enter into a forbidden relationship during the painting of a portrait. A story about art, oppression, and sensuousness, set in an English country house in the late eighteenth century.
A scenario about the creation of a painting and the short but intense relationship between three women from three different social classes. The story takes place in the late eighteenth century on the fictitious English estate Wintershill House where the Duke of Somerset has hired a young female painter to make a portrait of his wife. Together with the duchess’ lady’s maid they are haunted by Artemisia, a hedonistic entity emerging from a painting by the historical figure Artemisia Gentileschi.
Artemisia takes place within a hyper-feminine rococo universe where sensuality and beauty are key features. The scenes alternate between stationary narration and physical semi-live set to music. The scenario has erotic undertones but no explicit sex-scenes. Intimacy, longing, and sex are all expressed through a string of painting-scenes where the players will be “painting” on each other with dry brushes. Here the erotic and the aesthetic merges in one big art metaphor.