Tag: figurative art

Louise Renée creates heartfelt soft pastel paintings inspired by family, memories, and the people and animals she holds dear. From commemorating her beloved dog Buddy to revisiting her father's experiences as an RAF pilot during the Second World War, her portraits preserve personal stories through colour, expression, and emotion.

Margret Pinger creates textured portraits that explore the emotions, experiences, and individual stories behind the human face. Working with oil and acrylic, she paints entirely with her fingers, building layered backgrounds that merge with expressive portraits of women.

Susan Grabel is an American sculptor whose figurative work challenges conventional ideas about women, beauty, and visibility. Working with clay, handmade paper, and cardboard, she explores the aging female body, feminism, social inequality, memory, and grief.

Maureen Daniel creates large-scale portraits that challenge conventional ideas of female beauty and representation. Working primarily in acrylic and oil, she paints women as they are, free from expectations of perfection, flattery, or stereotypical elegance.

Joanna Pilarczyk creates colourful figurative paintings that combine expressive portraits, bold geometric patterns, and lush greenery. Influenced by nature, street art, animation, and graphic design, she builds vibrant compositions that explore identity, intimacy, relationships, and acceptance.

Sarah Rutherford is a British painter who returned to her artistic practice after stepping away from painting to pursue a career in marketing. Working primarily in oils, she creates portraits and still lifes that look beyond surface appearances to explore character, emotion, and the stories objects carry.

Linda Edwards creates paintings rooted in the landscapes, traditions, and everyday life of Saddleworth, where she has lived for more than thirty years. Working mainly in oils, she captures quiet streets, changing light, local characters, natural landscapes, and community traditions, treating her paintings as a kind of visual diary of the place she calls home

Perth-based artist Rachelle Dusting brings portraiture, still life and symbolism together in paintings that explore womanhood, heritage, identity and transformation. Through her luminous oil paintings, she invites us to look closely at the people, objects and stories that shape who we are.

Dominika Luszcz creates contemporary portraits of women surrounded by flower wreaths, embroidered textiles, and earthy colors inspired by Polish folklore. Her paintings explore heritage, identity, nature, renewal, and belonging while reinterpreting traditional imagery through her own contemporary style.

Leigh Witherell uses the human figure to explore the emotions people often struggle to put into words. Working primarily through figurative painting, she creates intimate images shaped by grief, love, vulnerability, loss, and resilience. Her practice is deeply intuitive, beginning with emotion rather than anatomy or gesture, and her figures have evolved alongside her own experience of grief after the unexpected loss of her daughter in 2021. Witherell’s work also examines male vulnerability, unspoken feelings, and the stories carried quietly by those around us. Through projects such as The Invisibility Project,…