The Incredible Drawings of Cath Riley

Cath Riley is an incredible U.K. based artist working in pencil. There's a delicacy to all her work, but I am particularly drawn -- um, no pun intended -- to her drawings of "flesh" since these close-up images are particularly sensitive and sensual. (They are reminiscent, to me, of the famous passage in Bernini's The Rape of Prosepina where Pluto is grabbing Prosepina's thigh -- that's a pretty incredible thing of which to be reminiscent.) Some images (mostly below the break) -- I note, by the way, that a number of these beautiful images are for sale:

A few other images from her site (she's oddly not limited to hands gripping flesh):