A young figure gazes out from behind a frothy white ruffled collar, painted with thick, loaded palette-knife strokes that break the face into flickers of pink, blue, and warm ochre. The soft violet and grey background lets the pale skin and dark tousled hair emerge with quiet intensity, while a small note of red draws the eye. This expressive portrait by Pavel Filin, an original oil painting at Art Gallery Teplice, would sit well in any collection of contemporary figurative work.