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STILL LIFE STUDIES
January - May 2025
Oil studies, on various canvas/wood panels.
I decided to take a short break from portraits for a few months and ended up painting a whole series of still life works. It's perhaps my way of responding to all this global anxiety by focussing on simple still life subjects that make me happy. I hope they make you happy too.
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ONE BRUSH PAINTINGS
January 2025
All paintings:
Oil on canvas panel
40x40cm
This mini series was created as quick studies to explore a looser style, using only one large brush for every stroke. I also opted for much-reduced values. I've also eliminated all black values entirely, making the hues work much harder.
Please enquire by email for original paintings or see SHOP for prints.
I Heart U
Warm Summer Shadows
Pink Cowboy
Red On A Winters Day
Green Reflections
Blue Calm
oh beanz
January 2022
Oil on wood panel
40cm dia
This painting was created during lockdown 2021 and completed in 2022. It's a study of a floral arrangement put together by a very talented florist friend mr.co.flowerhouse (check out his amazing wreaths!). I just love the joyfulness of the saturated colours and fun beans can.
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how albert missed his hair
January 2022
Oil on wood panel
30cm dia
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dry january
January 2022
Oil on wood panel
35 x 45cm
full painting
Self Portrait completed in Jan, 2022.
Dry January is just so boring isn't it? I know, it's meant to be super healthy for us but, wow it drags on doesn't it?
Backlit with a cool natural light coming from the window, and front lit with a warm candle, creating some nice colour tensions on the piece.
tallulah's view
April - August 2020
Oil on wood panel
61 x 61cm
Self Portrait completed in lockdown, 2020.
Talking to friends about how they felt about being in isolation (in April/May - mid lockdown), most said they felt a mix of crashing highs and lows and in between that, a grey never-ending boredom, all in the same day. This self portrait is a mix of those feelings... having so much time on our hands we are always scrutinising ourselves and our surroundings at a time that seemed like it would never end.
The title Tallulah's View (of me) is because my daughter took the original photo after we gave her my old digital camera. This image resonated with me because I forget at times that she sees things differently than I do. While I'm scrutinising the ceiling, she's scrutinising me.
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sofie & piano
May 2020
Oil on canvas
43 x 53cm
Sofie is one of my nieces living in Sweden. This image is of her playing with a toy piano in her bedroom cupboard.
She sits quietly in this tiny space, resting perhaps after a moment of busy play with her big sister.
The scale of the piano intrigues me and raises questions of scale in Sofie herself, a little like Alice in Wonderland.
hats in bloomsbury
March 2020
Oil on canvas
80 x 80cm
This work was inspired by a scene I captured outside a gentleman's outfitters in Bloomsbury on a sunny day in North London.
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I started this work at the beginning of 2020 and I had to stop in a hurry due to Covid-19 and our studios closing. I've purposely left it unfinished with some elements only having had a first pass.
Shortlisted for the Holly Bush Emerging Women Painter Prize 2020
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