Artist Statement
My artistic practice is interested in extremes. Expansive canvases act as containers for emotion — feminine desire, hunger, grief, euphoria; exploring what it means to be a hungry woman in contemporary society. Beginning with abstract pours, strokes and smears, figures emerge and dissolve within turbulent scenes of intimacy and excess. I see painting as a way of digesting the lived experience and insisting on, now more importantly than ever, the material richness of the body. The buttery, deliciousness of paint, flesh and food are bound together in emotional, pulsing marks that dance around the histories and language of painting - from the Baroque to Abstract Expressionism to instagram culture. The paintings are a celebration of bodies in all their forms while examining the tension between extravagance and restraint that we all adhere to be accepted by society.
Food is a common thread through which I explore wider themes of gender, erotic desire, power, capitalism, and consumerism — all dancing around what painting is in its very essence.
