Raw Portrayals is a poetic body of work both tender and unapologetic.  The collection as a whole is a primal emotive response to raw feelings, memories and shared human experiences. Earth tones, organic mediums and ‘raw edges’ dominate and speak to the natural and real-states, metaphors for tenderness and pain and the fragility and robustness in life and death.

The non-refined ways in which the works have been realized with unpolished surfaces convey a freedom of artist expression using intuitive creative process. The mixed media artworks carry abstract narratives and incorporate layering of drawings, painting, textures, color fields, text, transferred photography and mark marking.  The vulnerable figurative depictions explore subconscious, childhood, memory, womanhood and ‘belonging hood’ and aim to instill emotions that transcend time, class, race and demographics.

Mini collections such as the calabash vessels, etched paintings on cork and cloth ‘tapestries’ (with sound and video installation), are interplayed to create an experience that triggers and connects back to the other interpretations of the ideas that inspired the making of the collection.