Outraged by Pleasure

My style of working derives from the process of making art via the unconscious mind that is the approach often employed in Surrealism, and certainly my work owes a great debt to the movement, especially the sensibilities of women surrealists like Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning whose imagery is largely about women as are my own.

However, I would say that the most significant inspiration and source of influence on my work comes from the type of Surrealism found in Latin American Art, namely the Cuzco school of Spanish-Peruvian Colonial Art and after that, Mexican-Spanish Colonial religious art. To me, these schools of painting are the richest in Surrealist imagery in the sense that they miraculously subvert reality and Nature into unearthly transformations. Many of my photomontage/collages explore archetypal female forms inspired by the Peruvian saints, historical figures and 16th century *tapadas”.

I am specifically interested in how the poetic aspects of animal "nature" are inter-changeable with psychological traits of humans. In these collages I am introducing the moment of hybridization in which animal and human nature merge. By reconstructing fragments, I am exploring the tangential and psychological possibilities of the animal and human figure to arouse erotic emotions which aspire to the poetry of perversion that all human beings own but suppress.

Outraged by pleasure

Cloud virus

The Poet’s dream

Clown in landscape

Dark matter

Tangential identities