Artist : Faye Eleanor Woods
Title : Slug / Hug
Medium : oil and acrylic on canvas
Dimensions : 36 x 31 cm


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Faye Eleanor Woods is a Scottish artist currently living and working in West Yorkshire. Her symbolic artwork acts as a love letter to her own experience, full of life’s joy, absurdity, humour, loss and fear. Recent works explore her own personal journey through grief, one she describes as dark, weepy and often hilarious. She hails her work as a tangilble form of inner catharsis. Using raw pigments and acrylic ink she forces rich colour into the grain of the canvas, blurring edges with copious amounts of water or using thin layers of oil to blend the figures with their backgrounds creating an ethereal presence. As Woods says “I try to bring attention to the surreal aspects of life and the way the oddness of experience manifests within individuals and how that manifestation then affects me. In my vulnerability I crave strange moments of intimacy. I imagine drinking straight from the tap of all emotion, drinking so much of it, I take on too much and I’m sick and everything I spew out ends up in my work.”