When you browse the deeply sensual profile pictures of Beata Pevny’s online portfolio, you drift off to a place of romance, sensuality and desire. Pictures of old movies and memories of the Victorian setting of a novel you read long ago, float through your mind. You are in red.

Few things can provoke such feelings and it may be why Valentine’s Day seems more than appropriate a time to ignite such sentiments of lust and divinity. When you browse Beata’s Film Noir Fashion Stills, you have a sense that sensuality is an essential part of life, in a way that it seems useless to live without it. An African woman in silver silk and pearls, the mysterious purpose of a woman with a pistol, the focused and angered look of another behind the wheel. You can’t help but wonder, which part of me embraces this sort of hidden self?

Beata captures the mystery and sensuality of people in her photographic art. It seems very fitting that the artist herself will be at Modernbook Gallery, Thursday, February 11th to capture guests in one of the most sensual experiences of all: wine tasting.

Cupid’s Divine Wines present photographer Beata Pevny at her best, in the season of love this February.