Scarlet Arrow Finch

Figurative portraits exploring identity as something fluid, layered, and continuously shaped within contemporary visual culture.

Working mostly at large scale, my portraits treat identity as something layered and unresolved — shaped by perception, self-image, and the visual codes of contemporary culture. The feminine figure is both subject and surface: a site where adornment and concealment become the same gesture.

A background in costume design is inseparable from how I paint. Its logic of surface, construction, and ornament has migrated entirely into the canvas — fabric and sculptural texture integrated directly into compositions, so that material becomes a carrier of meaning rather than decoration.

Working at the intersection of realism and a poetic, at times surreal visual language, my portraits hold identity open rather than resolving it — intimate, ambiguous, and rooted in the longer traditions of adornment, portraiture, and the female gaze.

Self-taught painter, shaped by a creative upbringing in an artistically engaged family.

2025 — Group exhibition, Gallery ALAUX, Valencia
2025 — Group exhibition, Westin Hotel Gallery, Valencia
2024 — Exhibition during the premiere of documentary Be The Fool, In-Edit Film Festival, Melkweg, Amsterdam.