I have always been very sensitive and emotionally aware and was taught as a young girl to see this as a gift.

As I became a teenager, it was clear that I wasn’t going to fit into the box of what society allows women to be. I was not cute or easy going I was furiously wild and hard to please. I still am these things, and like many other women continue to push against the grain.

My art is unapologetically feminist, I look at rape culture and the over sexualisation of women and girls,  but the women in my paintings are not victims, they are wild and animalistic, they are a rabid pack of power and they are in control of their own narrative. I feel too much feminist art depicts women as victims, I enjoy painting naked women embracing their power.

It is based on the grand idea of women being allowed to feel. It is the idea of unlearning the repression of patriarchy and connecting to a lost wildness.

You may have a burning desire to regain a mischievous teenage freeness and this is encouraged, because my work plays with the emotions that many women lost at the teenage years, as we were told it is not pretty. I feel you do not need to lose your anger or power in life, just learn to control and articulate it. Because women are more than what society allows us to be, woman are allowed to be powerful, women are allowed to be angry, women are allowed to loudest voice in the room women are allowed to be carelessly ugly.

My paintings are made to invoke buried emotions that we have been told are not feminine and not welcome.

This exhibition is made by a woman. With paintings of women. For women.