Hair scraped and pinned back out of the exacting performance’s way, frequently found beneath the rim of a traditionally sought hat, dress all ornate and consuming, lending itself perfectly for the art of dance and subjective story-telling, there’s an enchanting, enthralling charm and charisma to ‘Belleza en las Sombras’, celebrated contemporary figurative artist, Fletcher Sibthorp’s most recent illustrative gift to this genre of the art world. A draconian, sinisterly-caught backdrop is enlivened and brought within touching distance of angels by the visual inscription of the young woman; this femme fatale who’s leading us all a merry dance with her provocative, sultry and sexually-charged deliverance of dance, captured in blood red lipstick and vanilla whipped dress, ruffled, cuffed, layered and thrilled to within an inch of its natural.