Through painting and drawing, my work responds to domestic interiors and objects often designed by, or for, women. An extensive collection of images serves as a wellspring from which to study the meaning of intimacy, forming a body of work titled 'With time and straw, the medlars ripen.' Taken from a Provençal proverb, ‘Avec le temps et la paille, les néfles mûrissent’, Modernist icon, Eileen Gray, chose to rename her house in Castellar from Le Bateau Blanc to Tempe à Pailla (Time and Straw), alluding to the need for time to elapse for things to happen as they should.
My work portrays figures such as Gray, where paintings serve as relics of yearning—for spaces and objects that are beyond my reach, that I may never see.
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My practice delves into interiors that exude allure, seduction, and glamour. Guided by a designer's careful arrangement of plush textiles, tactile wood, and reflective surfaces like glass or chrome, these spaces beckon us within. While my work shows the inherent beauty of these materials and objects, they also take on pivotal roles, defining the intentions of the room and guiding our journey through space. They hold distinct purposes: the bedroom is a place of rest and intimacy, the bathroom synonymous with cleansing and renewal, and the living room extends an invitation to comfort and connection. My work intends to present more than just the functionality of furniture, highlighting the profound connection between cherished spaces and objects with notions of self-care, autonomy, nourishment, and solitude.
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My experience of painting is a balancing act- how much to use and in what way. A continuous dialogue of where to add more and where to strip back. There is a delicate threshold of when colour is enough and when it is too much. The subtle changes of materials, solid to soft, warm to cold, and shadow to light, become the language of painting, fuelling intuition in moments of doubt.
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