New Painting Works

Using and twisting medievaleque religious imagery, I hope to laugh at our lives and point to ways that we can value ourselves – despite all the contradictions – and survive.

I am interested in the ways that the body can evoke shared lived experience. I make art to create new ways of thinking about identity and change cultural narratives that confine and silence women. My obsession with the construction of self, is rooted in my experiences as a woman and mother, escaping a claustrophobic religious upbringing. My work preserves and destroys, hides and reveals, fragments and re-builds to explore questions of value and how to be a woman and be visible and present. Have a look a work for sale.

I often draw on religious and historical iconography in painting, to conjure figures and scenes that are at once joyous and macabre. Multiple figures mix in unsettling ways in colourfully abstracted domestic settings. Painting is a meditation on Subjectivity and multiplicity that uses material metaphor in the use of viscous bitumen.

Shifting between sensual, emotional and aesthetic references, layers of paint create a scar tissue of texture that intimate the body and continuous healing processes; compositions multiply the female body and twist cultural plots which contain and restrain women. I want to create conversations about women as Subjects-in-Process; never complete, formed and re-formed continually in play.

Women’s lives are split between so many things that make representing their lived everyday reality ambivalent and problematic. Women’s lives are challenged not only by inequalities but impossible choices – split between the self and Other’s lives.

New paintings continue to use historical painting references to reference and make fun of serious political and social issues for women. Contact me for more information about painting.