Interiors

Simone de Beauvoir wrote in The Second Sex that “the home becomes the centre of the world and even its only reality; ‘a kind of counter-universe or universe in opposition’ (Bachelard); refuge, retreat, grotto, womb, it gives shelter from outside dangers; it is this confused outer world that becomes unreal.”

This series emerged as I returned home after fifteen years away. Finding a home became a quiet urgency. The original images—assembled from torn collage fragments—have since evolved into gestural self-portraits, reverse-painted on Perspex. These layered interiors distort time and space, offering glimpses of everyday objects while holding space for memory, vulnerability, and the complexities of domestic life.

Each work is reverse-painted with acrylic on acrylic panel.