ARE YOU MINE?
2009
Acrylic & Letraset on canvas
120×150cm
I predominantly work in acrylic or oil paint, beginning with recognisable figures and environments, which I then allow to loosen and distort as the work develops. My work is influenced by figurative expressionism and contemporary narrative painting, and prioritises emotional resonance over realism.
I see painting as a way to access emotional and experiential truths, using gestural brushstrokes, distortion and ambiguity to explore moments of transition and uncertainty. My ideas consistently return to states of becoming, those in-between moments where identity, desire, and self-understanding are still taking shape.
Across my work, female sexuality is approached as a lived and evolving experience rather than a fixed image. I have particular interest in early or new encounters, where heightened self-awareness, apprehension, and anticipation coexist. Those moments where the body is shaped by touch, projection, and doubt.
Are You Mine? puts the viewer at the threshold between anticipation and doubt. In this piece, female sexuality is not a spectacle or declaration, but a place of vulnerability, curiosity, and negotiation.The figure is caught mid-transition, her posture shows a body learning itself in real time, and sexuality is framed as a process rather than a fixed state, something learned through touch, risk, and repetition. The title question is written along her right thigh, and is not a demand but a question. It speaks of the uncertainty of desire and honours the vulnerability of not yet knowing; the moment when change feels imminent and the self is emerging.