2020 - acrylic on canvas - three 190 x 40 cm panels on floor stand frames
TWISTED TALES is an innovative painting series that poignantly reflects on the complexity of the human spirit and its boundless capacity for renewal. Each piece serves as a metaphor for individuals who have endured trauma, carrying the marks of their struggles yet emerging resilient and transformed.
The artist begins each tale by painting both sides of an unstretched canvas, a symbol of the layered, multifaceted nature of every person. Yet, the story doesn’t end there, it’s only the start of a laborious journey. She then proceeds to fracture the linear narrative by cutting up the original two-sided painting into strips. This rupture mirrors how a major traumatic event wreaks havoc and impacts every inch of one’s life. The strips are then painstakingly reassembled and affixed onto a new painted stretched canvas representing the foundation of the next chapter of one’s life. In this transformative phase, the fragments of the original painting often reappear in a shuffled order and their forms is at times spiralled out of shape and forever distorted. Hidden underlayers are occasionally revealed. The protruding fragile slashed edges of the original painting become integral to the work’s beauty and meaning. The process embraces chaos, disorder, and the interplay of individual intent and external unpredictable forces.
The resulting pieces are more than paintings, they are sculptural entities bearing the scars of their creation. They may not be easily decipherable but can be felt viscerally. They challenge the viewer to look deeper, to appreciate the interplay of strength and vulnerability, revelation and concealment, chaos and composure and to find meaning beyond the surface. TWISTED TALES thus honours those bearing the scars of formidable journeys reminding us of the perennial importance of empathy and understanding towards others.
2020 - acrylic on canvas - three 190 x 40 cm panels on floor stand frames (the back of each panel is all black; panels can be rotated to alter how the triptych appears)
2013 - acrylic on canvas - two 35 x 35" or 90 x 90 cm panels
2021 - acrylic on canvas - 40” x 40” - 102 x 102 cm
2015 - acrylic on canvas - 60 x 40" - 152 x 102 cm
2014 - acrylic on canvas - two 31" x 24" or 80 x 60 cm panels
2015 - acrylic on canvas - two 60 x 16" - 152 x 40 cm
2013 - acrylic on canvas - 60 x 180 cm
2015 - acrylic on canvas - 60 x 40" -152 x 102 cm
2014 - acrylic on canvas - two 27” x 35" - 70 x 90 cm panels
2013 - acrylic on canvas - 35 x 35" - 90 x 90 cm