Pearl fishing

Hidden treasure
This artwork is Hidden Treasure by Mongolian artist Solongo Monkhooroi, also known as Solongo Mellecker. There’s a capsule biography of the artist here, attributed to Hi Fructose magazine: “Born in Mongolia, artist Solongo Mellecker applies her formal training in traditional Mongolian painting to her fantastical paintings of beautiful women coupled with large, dangerous beasts and reptiles. The women appear either intriguingly dominant over their beastly counterparts or at perfect ease with them untethered beside them.”
Image provenance by Bacchus at Erosblog.