Freya Guest
www.freyaguest.co.uk
@freyaguest
Statement:
My paintings depict objects from around my home. I use trivial everyday things as a way of exploring topics beyond the initial subject matter, such as my experience of being a new mother and the strangeness of living through the pandemic. I’m interested in the human ability to feel connected to inanimate objects, and how this relates to a modern experience of loneliness and alienation. Despite being focussed on small physical objects, the paintings have a feeling of being extra-terrestrial, and have an uncanny sense that they are not quite of this world.
The two paintings I have submitted, Pinecone & Switch, can both be interpreted as having a catalyst for change as a subject. A pinecone, full of seeds, has the possibility for multiple entire trees to come from it, hundreds of years of potential growth laid in waiting. In Switch, it is unclear whether the switch has been turned on or off or is about to be. Both paintings were begun during the early days of the pandemic and worked on whilst I was pregnant. On a personal and global scale, it felt like life was about to be altered in ways that couldn’t be fully anticipated – nothing had changed, everything had changed.
www.freyaguest.co.uk
@freyaguest
Statement:
My paintings depict objects from around my home. I use trivial everyday things as a way of exploring topics beyond the initial subject matter, such as my experience of being a new mother and the strangeness of living through the pandemic. I’m interested in the human ability to feel connected to inanimate objects, and how this relates to a modern experience of loneliness and alienation. Despite being focussed on small physical objects, the paintings have a feeling of being extra-terrestrial, and have an uncanny sense that they are not quite of this world.
The two paintings I have submitted, Pinecone & Switch, can both be interpreted as having a catalyst for change as a subject. A pinecone, full of seeds, has the possibility for multiple entire trees to come from it, hundreds of years of potential growth laid in waiting. In Switch, it is unclear whether the switch has been turned on or off or is about to be. Both paintings were begun during the early days of the pandemic and worked on whilst I was pregnant. On a personal and global scale, it felt like life was about to be altered in ways that couldn’t be fully anticipated – nothing had changed, everything had changed.
Pinecone
21 x 15cm Oil on board 2021 |
Switch
39 x 28cm Oil on board 2021 |