NYMPH AND MYTHS
Ongoing series of large scale oil paintings where I explore feminism through myth as a space where women are shown as powerful, beautiful, and untamed.
He felt by Lillies
Oil on canvas, 100×200, 2023
This blankness operates as an infrastructure of autonomy. It marks a boundary against the historic demand that the female body be completed—polished into legibility, desire, and ownership. Instead, the figure occupies an in-between state: present/absent, icon/anti-icon, myth/anti-myth. She is not fixed; she is becoming.
Forest Nymph
Oil on canvas, 100×200, 2023 (in private collection)
The works begin with a recognisable art-historical template: the reclining nude. The citation is intentional. It activates the memory of Renaissance and classical painting, where the nude often functions as an image to be looked at idealised, finished, and contained. Here, that economy of looking is interrupted. The figure is held in a raw contour, traced rather than modelled, and the body remains unfilled white, withheld, unresolved. What is traditionally offered as flesh becomes a void. The gesture is not erasure but refusal: the subject is visible, yet not available.
Across the series, myth becomes a strategy: not escapism, but a tool for reclaiming narrative power. These paintings do not simply revise the nude; they expose the conditions under which it has been produced, and they reopen it as a site of feminist agency where the body is no longer an object of vision, but a subject asserting the right to remain incomplete, self-defined, and sovereign.
EXPULSION FROM THE GARDEN OF EDEN (FALL)
Oil on canvas, 100×200, 2023
This work serves as a poignant reflection of the swiftly approaching reality, catching us off guard with unexpected abruptness. From the grand narrative of prosperity and progress, we find ourselves drawn back into the clutches of a past diligently safeguarded by religious zealots and conservative figures entrenched in positions of power. Yet, it is my fervent hope that we do not lose sight of the dreams we once held for a brighter reality, dreams that can still be rekindled if we act swiftly. Deep within us, lies an enduring power of transformation that never wanes.
The painting is a testament to the artist’s personal experiences during two recent military conflicts. On the canvas, the artist masterfully blends vibrant, electrifying colors with the classical palette reminiscent of the Renaissance, seamlessly marrying the traditions of classical art with elements drawn from the subversive world of street graffiti culture.
ENTRANCE OF INFINITY
Oil on canvas, 100×200×3, triptych, 2023
LILY LULLABY
Oil on canvas, 100×200, 2023
CONQUERED BY FLOWER
Charcoil on canvas, 100×200, 2023