Artwork without frame is 21x49 cm Amoung the favourite places of the artist, the Rila lakes are located very high up in the mountains. Considering the ambience of the place this is how the painter has depicted the nymph that inhabits them. The nymph is turning the teal water into drapery of the same color. The frame : Handmade from wood and plaster, water gilded with genuine gold leaf over rouge burnishing bole and patinated Lyubena Fox’s paintings are painted in several layers, using both the transparent and opaque qualities of oil paint. Each layer is applied after the previous has dried which makes the painting withstand time. It also creates a glowing, three-dimensional effect, which is due to the different layers showing though each other.