by amy heath BA(Hons) MA SWA
oil on canvas
h: 120 w: 76 d: 5 (cms).
I wanted to make a portrait of a very cool and knowing woman- to make it luscious, edgy, seductive (especially in color)- but that also had this message about the domestic and female sexuality. The teapot and teacup and scissors are kind of fetish objects- that they are domestic objects, but are bent over backwards, splayed and pointed. She knows this trap- the role that women still have of having to be attractive and still are doing most of the domestic work. Roles, appearance, silence, an awareness of the patriarchy and its traditional, confined roles for men and women. It is a message with pretty colors. 'A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down in the most delightful way'
£1500.00 (As exhibited.)
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by amy heath BA(Hons) MA SWA
oil on canvas
h: 61 w: 46 d: 3 (cms).
'Trap' asks the question - is the domestic a trap for women? Where is there real freedom? At the time I was thinking of Louise Bourgeois' Femme Maison and reading Deborah Levy's Cost of Living - "To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of the Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children have been the priority is to find behind it an unthanked, unloved, neglected, exhausted woman...To not feel at home in her family home is the beginning of the bigger story of society and its female discontents."
£800.00 (As exhibited.)
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by amy heath BA(Hons) MA SWA
oil on canvas
h: 76 w: 51 d: 2 (cms).
'Queen of Green' is about the magic of fairy tales, children's stories, a garden turning into a thing of one's imagination. It is also about a return to childhood imagination- looking within rather than making images from observation, creating your own inner world. That is where one's real power is. As Carl Jung said 'Those who look outside dream; those who look inside awaken'.
£1200.00 (As exhibited.)
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