A woman lies curled on her side, head pillowed on her hands, eyes closed and not quite awake yet. She wears a pale dress dusted with small blue dots, and her bare legs stretch out behind her across the paper. Behind her shoulders the only strong colour gathers in a loose wash of blue, while everything else stays light and barely touched. Olga Vasilyeva paints Awakening wet and quick, letting the white of the sheet carry most of the picture. This watercolour from 2016 is wide and low, 70 by 33 centimetres.