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hide, grow, breathe
By
Zena Blackwell
2018
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- Painting
- Contemporary Art
- Fine Art
- Painting
- Figurative
- Portraiture
- Still Life
- Family
- Domestic
- Pattern
- Studio Practice
- Exhibition
Dimensions
110 x 80
The sources for Blackwell’s imagery are the threads of family life; observations of her children in varying domestic scenarios at rest or at play. With a stylised intensity of vibrant colour and
pattern, the paintings elevate the everyday beyond the ordinary. The Mother / artist’s viewpoint is there as a subversive sub-text throughout the work, revealing an intensity and shift in the ‘normal’ scale of things; to claustrophobic effect. Underneath the witnessed moment of an apparently innocent snapshot of childhood, there is the constant undertone of adult anxiety, and
a sense of building drama.
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