ABSTRACT SELF-PORTRAITS (2015)

ENTIRE SERIES SOLD

These self-portraits were heavily inspired by Cubism. Cubism was a revolutionary new approach to representing reality invented in around 1907–08 by artists Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. They brought different views of subjects (usually objects or figures) together in the same picture, resulting in paintings that appear fragmented and abstracted. Cubism is a style of art that stresses abstract structure at the expense of other pictorial elements especially by displaying several aspects of the same object simultaneously and by fragmenting the form of depicted objects.

These self-portraits were made using acrylic paint on battleship lino block 50x40cm and were all sold to Junction Motel and Lounge Bar.

The addition of sharp geometric shapes help to distort the human face. The bold colour palette represents the artist's personality which is bubbly and vibrant. The artist has used battleship lino block to paint on, as the surface is smooth making the application of paint effortless.

BULGES OF FLESH

This trilogy of soft chalk pastel, pencil on A4 paper artworks were influenced by Jenny Saville's fleshy creations. Saville’s artwork render female flesh on a monumental scale. Her canvases magnify the raw details of embodied experience: large, drooping breasts; pregnant bellies and flab; faces smashed against plexiglass, a figure sitting on the toilet. Painters throughout history—Peter Paul Rubens, Paul Gaugin and Pablo Picasso have long objectified the female body; the subject matter becomes newly shocking and potent under Saville’s brush. If her oeuvre doesn’t offer a pretty picture of humanity, but an honest one. These artworks are an honest portray of womens bodies with visible imperfections include: bulges of flesh, dimples, scars, spots, cuts, bruises, stretch marks, wrinkles, saggy skin, skin discoloration and excess flab. In this trilogy these so called imperfections are superimposed. These artworks are honest, untouched, depictions of women, their 'imperfections' should be embraced. They are naturally beautiful.

DIGITAL DREAMS

These digital artworks crerated using Photoshop all explore the theme of dreams. Dracula's Castle (first image top row) depicts a place where the artist dreams of visiting someday. The following three images represent a sleeping beauty of sorts, who dreams of a fantastical worlds. These sleeping beauties do not wish to be awoken for their dreams, for their dreams are better than reality. The fifth artwork was an entrant into the 2014 Yen Female Art Awards competition. The artwork explores the future where nature has overtaken human-made society, and humans have to learn how to respect nature. The last artwork is a simple still life depicting pomegranate fruit.