Emerge Painting

Ieva (b. 1981, Latvia) is a London based figurative artist. Influenced by her cultural background and contemporary feminist writings, Ieva's paintings explore the fluidity of the female body, identity and the sense of self. While tapping into our intrinsic connection with nature, Ieva's practice seeks to challenge conventional notions of femininity and instead, emphasise multiplicity of the female body and, particularly, its potential of becoming and transforming. Through experimentation with colour and material, Ieva's paintings reveal the body as a surface of memories, feelings and sensations. As a result, they transfigure the body into a dynamic material that slides between solid and fluid, representational and abstract, archetypal and unfamiliar.