Tag: portrait painting
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.
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.
Cristina Chirilă creates layered portraits that explore the complex emotions, memories, and contradictions beneath the surface of a recognisable face. Working across painting, photography, and installation, she uses fragmentation, blurring, and overpainting to challenge how we see and understand identity.
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.
Discover the creative journey of Joanna Pilarczyk, from her childhood in Poland and television-inspired colour palette to her vibrant figurative paintings in London.
Joan Cox has spent more than twenty-five years exploring the figure, creating intimate oil paintings that centre queer women and the ordinary moments of their lives. Her couples appear in homes, parks, bedrooms, and everyday settings, surrounded by the objects, animals, books, clothing, and details that reveal who they are. Drawing from art history while reimagining familiar compositions through contemporary queer perspectives, Joan creates paintings that give women who love women space to exist on their own terms. Her work challenges the tradition of depicting women primarily through the male gaze,…