Tag: narrative painting

Heidi Weiss creates paintings that sit between memory and interruption, drawing from paused television stills and transforming them into fragmented, emotionally charged compositions. Cropping, distortion, and layered oil surfaces allow her to withhold information, leaving viewers inside unresolved moments that feel both familiar and distant. Influenced by her background in painting and fiber art, her process embraces repetition, slowness, and accumulation, building surfaces that echo the instability of memory itself. Rather than telling complete stories, her work focuses on what lingers, the quiet tension, the partial view, the feeling that something…

Jessica Fisher creates intense, close-up portraits that eliminate distance, pulling viewers directly into the emotional core of the face. Her work explores memory, identity, and the subconscious through gestural brushwork and tightly framed compositions where the eyes become the focal point. Drawing from personal experiences of trauma and healing, painting became her language when words failed. Her Blasphemous Saints series shifts focus away from identity, using cloaked figures and gesture to express vulnerability and tension. Now working on larger scales, her paintings feel both intimate and confrontational at once. Each piece…

Adi Zur’s layered mixed media paintings combine oil, text, and collage to create surfaces that hold hidden histories beneath them. Inspired by archaeology and philosophy, her work invites viewers to look closer, uncovering buried meaning through colour, fragments, and subtle shifts in composition.

Selected for our Birds virtual exhibition, Jennifer Holmes’ work stood out for its softness and restraint. Through flowers, animals, and light, she builds visual narratives that value stillness, mystery, and emotional depth over spectacle.