Emily Wenman

Painting amorphous works of botanical, bodily landscapes, I intend to capture organic impressions in amongst washes and panels of paint. Hovering between abstraction and a residual sense of figuration, my works exhibit an intensity and hyperactivity of colour and dynamism to the painted surface. ​

Incorporating fervent gestural mark making within atmospheric blankets of paint, I place emphasis on the nebulous, indistinguishable and mystical. With reference to bioluminescence in botanical material and the dazzling ‘structural colours’ of nature, my paintings explore the turbulent ground between the botanical and the bodily, between beauty and toxicity between natural and artificial.