My work is currently featured on ruby mag.

DRAWING EXHIBITION IN CHICAGO

My drawings are currently on show in Gescheidle gallery, Chicago. The show is called "le papier (part) deux". Here is the gallery's website: www.gescheidle.com

"And suddenly he realised he had become
a coward.
Nobody could help him. He didn't need any help.
He wanted his courage back, but there it was,
flying high above the ochre fields,
looking at the clouds and smiling."

I made a small version of the giraffe, just to see how to adjust the pattern. The final creature will have bigger feet and a thinner neck. I will also add ears.

the unruly lady

Layer five

Layer four

The faces are almost ready now. They have between six and eight layers of paint each, and I am going to design bodies for them today.

I don't enjoy writing about my work online, so I will stop it after finishing these paintings. To me, keeping an online blog is almost like a really awkward way of keeping a diary. I don't want to write anything personal, yet during the actual process of painting, I don't have anything impersonal to write.

After finishing these paintings, I will include only images and short captions of text in the blog. Hopefully that'll work better.

Layer three

Layer two

Layer one

Finally things are starting to get a bit more organised. I received a slot for my thesis show: 13th-19th May, 2007. It leaves me eight months to prepare.

I am still working from the same photo I took of my friend, Anne, a few years ago. This time, I have manipulated the photo slightly, so that it does not look like Anne anymore. Instead, the resulting photos are portraits of imaginary people. (I have attached a couple of the images above.)

I now have 50 different versions of the same face, and I am planning to paint each of them. Once painted, each face is going to get a soft body made of stuffed, white fabric. They'll be a group of body bags.

The idea of painting portraits of illusionary people makes me smile. Traditionally, portraits are regarded as mirrors of the soul, capturing the essence of a person rather than her looks. What happens when the person does not even exist?

Time to go home and take Marcel the cat to the graveyard.

PLEASE VOTE FOR DAVID GRAHAM!

My boyfriend, David Graham, is one of the shortlisted artists in the Saatchi & Guardian competition.

It would be great if you voted for him through the following link:

David Graham on Guardian