Artwork Description

Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the front.

This painting was a finalist in the Percival Portrait Prize 2018.
My compositions feature darkly poetic female portraits against undefined backgrounds, in a void or dream-like state. These mystical portraits of women, almost haunting in their beauty, are seeped in the natural world. I desire to create images of beauty and mystery that allow the viewer to find their own personal significance in them, traversing emotions that reside deep within our own subconscious.

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Medium

Acrylic on Italian linen, stretched canvas

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Stretched and ready to hang

This artwork is currently stretched and ready to hang.

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Banksias in a silver ornate metal vessel casting a shadow on a wooden tableBlue petunias in pot with purple lamp and blue satinStill life contrasts with our lives today which are dynamic, moving and constantly shifting, so there is definitely a strange irony in my work. I’m trying to suspend time, but it is still a reminder of our mortality, transience, and that things will fade and pass. Time becomes precious.
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