Tag: emotional abstraction

Daiana Bruj creates layered abstract paintings using fabric, collage, and upcycled materials that carry traces of lived experience. Often incorporating personal elements like worn textiles, her work builds surfaces that feel both intimate and deeply human. Colour leads her process, forming an emotional field before shapes and structure emerge, while each material adds its own history to the composition. Rather than depicting faces directly, her paintings explore presence through absence, capturing the warmth, memory, and quiet imprint people leave behind. Over time, her practice has shifted toward restraint, using fewer elements…

Kathleen Warren’s encaustic works layer wax over photography, building and scraping surfaces that mirror memory itself. Through patience, intuition, and time, her paintings reveal stories that emerge slowly, inviting viewers into a quiet dialogue beneath the surface.

Margo Nacai’s abstract expressionist paintings challenge traditional portraiture by presenting fragmented faces, gestures, and forms that mirror the complexity of human identity. Through colour, broken lines, and emotional space, her work explores memory, inner tension, and the unfinished nature of self.

Nena Lang creates paintings that feel less like images and more like emotional presence. Built through layers scraped, pressed, and reworked with knives and rigid rulers, her works give form to what cannot be spoken moments when holding everything inside becomes impossible and painting becomes the only way forward.