Talulah Belle

I have a personal vision to create pictures that the viewer is drawn into. The challenge is to evoke, not document; to swim in the paint work instead of just dipping ones toes in. It is the abstract and emotive qualities that are important to me.

Portraits are naïve and often proportionally incorrect, self sustaining by virtue of their colour and application.

Landscapes are formed using brushstrokes and flat areas of colour creating movement and tension on the picture plane. Gesture and linear rhythm appears expressively – even violently drawing ones eyes into all four corners of the picture frame. Always when I work I feel intimate with the paint and subject.

I have had several solo exhibitions. I have completed a one year diploma in art. Otherwise I am self taught. My influences are Toss Woollaston, Pat Hanley.