Oil on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the back.

Succumb combines historical and contemporary oil painting. When these opposing styles are paired a new and striking image is created.
The calm meets the chaotic, the premeditated is interrupted by the spontaneous and the past coexists alongside the present. Realism and abstraction are merged in new and harmonious compositions.
These “beautiful imperfections” take inspiration from eroding frescoes, peeling billboards and crumbling classical sculptures.
Employing a wet on wet technique of oil painting Penelope uses a palette knife and brushwork
to fully exploit the pliable and gooey viscosity of her medium.