Across the Thames Painting

This is an oil painting on a panel with a wood 1 1/2" cradle. It is a view of a woman looking out her bedroom window and across the Thames to the other side of the river. There is a tendency among women to find themselves entwined in threads that bind and keep them from moving freely. Sometimes this web is self created, by expectations or belief systems that a woman may ‘osmosize’ from her surroundings without even realizing it. Other times there are true bars on her cage, barriers to self expression and autonomy that are welded into place by husbands, parents, siblings and careers. The soccer mom and the gang banger’s girlfriend have more in common than they may realize. My interest in this phenomenon leads me to a body of metaphorical figurative work that I call ‘Escaping Women’. Most of them large in scale and implying a narrative about freedom, and flight, conformity and collaboration. The narrative is difficult to portray and so I attempt it over and over again, finding a bit of freedom with each canvas.

Painting:Oil on Wood

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:24 W x 30 H x 1.5 D in

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