Atlantis to Yucatan
The series explores the layering of mediums, charcoal, graphite, acrylic and oil paints—which all represent the layers of learning about my parents, meeting my biological father (Greek Cypriot), rediscovering Mexican traditions and the weight of heritage education as a parent and artist.
The drawings are all underwater—swimming and navigating these mythical waters of Atlantis and the Gulf of Mexico.
Priced individually, listed in the drawing’s caption. 2023
She. Her. We.
Created during my final year at Goldsmiths, but in a separate studio away from the campus is a body of work where I felt safe to work with layers of personal history, research, family stories and current events.
Influences pulled from reading Virginia Woolf’s essay, Three Guineas, to imagining Joan of Arc as a zombie, Greek myth-makers, biblical stories, institutions, reimagining Mexico-based mythology with playful illustration exploration within my craft and practice.
All are grounded with women, drawn to a size that better represents a woman’s influence.
Each painted drawing is 240x160cm. 2024
Big Time Drawings
The big time drawings began whilst reading Katy Hessel’s The Story of Art without Men. Evaluating women and colonisation and how it continues to play out today.
These are simple drawings with oil stick only on paper—some of the largest sheets I could order that was not delivered in a roll.
Sized 122x152cm. 2023
Guadalupe before Jesus
The Lady Guadalupe series is inspired by the Big Time Drawings series and the History of Art without Men ideas that were swishing through my mind. Here, I combined some spirit animals, and the often seen blue shawl that drapes around the more common Mexican shrines I witnessed as a child. There were lots of Jesus on the Cross necklaces on the chest of women I loved–which honestly freaked me out. With these drawings, I drew the women playing with the breast shapes that are often seen in western art–crazy spheres of breast fat–impossible to see in real life. breasts that seemed comical, confusing when looking at my own young body.
For these drawings, I focused on making the background look like fencing because I wanted to put the figure at the border between the USA and Mexico. There is no clear landmark telling us which side of the fence she is on–then I also played with the size of fruit from the Garden of Eden. Everything is explored with pastels and layers and the fencing simply done with charcoal. Sized 122x152cm. 2023
Go Play with Your Dolls
This series started with the drawings in paper. For one month, I collected abandoned toys from my neighbourhood and repositioned them with an old garden chair.
I just started drawing, and thinking about all the rolls dolls play in a person’s life; toy, friend, nostalgia, therapy tool. We ask dolls to carry a lot of our secrets—we explore who we are and how we interact with others through our playtime with dolls. Then, I made larger, oil on canvas paintings which explore texture and the rhythms of the conversation.
Original A3 drawings on paper are available for purchase, or as limited edition, hand-coloured gicleé prints on archival paper.
Oil on canvas, 76x50cm. 2022
Drawing on canvas/linen
Pastels on paper, oil stick on canvas, 260×240 cm
The British Riviera, with toxic glow in the dark elements flowing around the refugee boated girl and kings and kowards making all the decisions.
Kevin from Up, the constant search for the fountain of youth and coloniser thinking and drawing it out–and then staking my claim.
It is the sweet revenge of taking that lethal shoe from mamá and giving it to the dog to play with–there will be consequences, but not now. Now there is just play. Using the wall as a canvas and drawing birds frolicking from their world into the world of the drawing and out again, then to paper and finally on the canvas. It is layers of storytelling and movement from space and time and place.
All created 2023.
And finally, Thoosa, the rarely mentioned mother of the cyclops–her only child murdered by Jason and the Argonauts. A serpent writhes from her belly, the rabbit offers another opportunity with fertility whilst Poseidon thrashes with waves and ship wreckage against them.
2021, current events
Current events are drawings pulled from the headlines within my psyche. The overhead or misinterpreted conversations, glimpsed headlines and news bits you hear in the day.
Each drawing is charcoal and acrylic on paper.
Sized A1. 2021
The Epping Forest series, drawn in studio, whilst listening to the recordings of my walks in the forest throughout 2020. From soggy steps after a spring rain, to the crunchiest autumnal strolls, it’s all here in these elegant drawings. Some of the smallest drawings in the collection, they were completed with bamboo drawing sticks and Indian ink on watercolour hot pressed paper.
Sized A4. 2020
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