The mermaid swims between this world and the world of fantasy, paradoxical and impossible, an intoxicating creative vision. I made these drawings initially as two separate series’, one in pencil tinted with coloured pencil crayon, the other more fleshy portraits in pastel on a coloured ground. I later decided they belonged together as a set, the figures offering a further dimension to the more mythic portraits. Together the drawings represent a delve into the spectacle, delight and frothy excess of the Mer figure tempered by a subtle dark undercurrent. Friends at the beach toy with the allure of the hybrid and aquatic realm, posing fish-like amongst a flux of mythic women somewhere between sunlit beaches and the otherworldly subterranean channels of Hades.
PASTEL DRAWINGS ON PAPER (PORTRAIT)>
Lobster
Medusa
Aphrodite
Anemone of the sea
Calypso
The Styx Sisters
Chalice
Melusine and the Eels
Azure
Her Calling
Riddle
PENCIL AND COLOURED PENCIL DRAWINGS ON PAPER (LANDSCAPE)>
