Artwork Collection

Let's Stay Together

Figures gather in surreal arrangements; they drink, shout, gesture out and are generally preoccupied. I paint with oil on canvas energetic scenes dotted with absurdity and melodrama. I am reflecting on the intimacy and isolation of the crowd and its affiliations to social contract, nostalgia, loss, and uncertainty. Because, you know.

NORM!

Painting

NORM!

NORM! as its title suggests, is a bar scene. Drunk, passed out, depressed, and generally not enjoying themselves, these figures are the dregs who are still around at last call. They do what we wish to do, but without joy – what a waste! The... More

Why the Long Table?

Painting

Why the Long Table?

In Why the Long Table? we are welcomed to an empty segment of a table. On our side slumps the betrayer, already awash with regret for things that haven’t yet come to fruition. Ignored and wriggling against their stock-ish prison, a small red-handed... More

Hercules, Slay

Painting

Hercules, Slay

This work is about mistrust, violence, and sameness. It is the only work in the series to be definitive in its exterior setting and to show physical touch. Derived from the myth of Hercules’ battle against Antaeus, we see close combat. So close... More

Work by

Charlotte Healey

Maker