I'm a painter at heart, and in everything I do, gardening, drawing, writing, photography, ceramics, short film, etc there are aspects of painting at the heart of it. Between my many odd projects I work on a series of queer portraits, painting the lesbian gaze and the way I look at others more than I paint their original nature. The portraits are often unfinished, left deliberately open to the imagination of others. Made in series, only few survive from being painted over and he canvas reused. The series was started many years ago and continues without an end in sight.
Undoing the usual expectations of painting, I like to play with intuition while painting. A painting can be made in five minutes, it can takes months, it can be very small or very big, it can be finished or a simple sketch like the many oil sketches I made in Japan during my residency at ARCUS in the summer of 2024.
Also during the residency in ARCUS Yoko Enoki and I made a painting together as part of the research. It was the first time I made a collaborative painting, and we both enjoyed the feeling of carefully navigating on the canvas in response to each other's choices of colours and design. This was a very nice experience, a discovery of new possibilities in painting and collaborations with other artists. I hope 2025 will bring more opportunities like this, to further discover painting as a collective effort.
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| Studio view 2024, oil paintings, portrait series |
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| Oil sketches, ARCUS residency Japan, 2024 |
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| Collaborative painting with Yoko Enoki at ARCUS residency, presentation of the oil paint on linen map of the region, 2024. (photo: Yumiko Fujimoto) |
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