Olivia Series 

Olivia Series Artist statement 

​If the task was to find oneself, then the crisis for the postmodern subject is that nowhere is home, everything shifts and changes. What is the reflection in the mirror that ‘vanity’ holds? She refuses now to be the ‘site’ of another’s desire and reflects back to you the insubstantiality of your projections.
 
-Marsha Meskimmon
 
Opposing truth to nature, my paintings are an attempt at the representation of the self as well as the individual in the painting.
 
This contemporary process is the by-product of my life experiences, dependent upon the immediacy of the moment, describing mood and self-perception. As a result, the work that I am creating is the outcome of my subconscious, aiming to represent the individual in the painting as a subject rather than an object. There is a powerful story is told with a few non-representative strokes, which like many of the pieces, is dominated by abstract shapes. The portraitures leave you with a feeling of a person rising through the paint, emerging from below. The broad strokes can depict a specific face and evoke something of the subject's personality or mood. It’s a combination of qualities that pleases the intellect or moral sense.