Woman: Whole Beauty
Gateway Gallery, 1173 N Imperial Hwy, Ocotillo, CA
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Purchase an Original from Grace’s Current Show, running March 8th - June 7th 2025
10 of my artworks are currently on show at Gateway Gallery and available to purchase via the gallery owner, Mark Silva.
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Available for Purchase
Punk Machine #1 (Paula)
Acrylic on Cardstock, 23.5x33”, 2021.
$600
Who’s the model? What’s the story?
On the third floor of a little apartment complex on Great Peter Street, I met Paula, a forty-year-old with a shock of pink hair and a bright yellow bike. She was unique, quite shy despite her bold look and over-pierced ears, and a friend of my high-school art teachers. It was a connection I could’ve made myself given her look and feel, and their shared uniforms (Paula’s was usually navy blue, usually tied around her waist.) She would always request an Earl Grey tea during life drawings, swore openly and did not shave.
Punk Machine #2 (Paula)
Acrylic on Cardstock, 23.5x33”, 2021.
$600
Who’s the model? What’s the story?
Paula’s was the first nude body I painted, and I remember the small shock my English sensibilities felt when she undressed for the first time. Right – yes! People actually do this. People have skin under their clothes, and some like to sit in the center of a room and bare it for twenty strangers to see. What a funny world. Paula’s hair was faded by the time I painted this, with incorporated blue (faded) streaks that lined the nape of her neck. Earl Grey tea, please. We obliged.
Fond de l’Étang (Lili)
Oil paint, gold leaf on linen, 36x1.5x36”, 2021.
$1400
Lili is a very close friend of mine. She is a dancer and physicist. Lili, short for Juliet, has trailing, blonde, curly hair and cat eyes that sit behind tortoiseshell glasses. I chose to use gold leaf in this painting, partially for her hair, partially for her movement, but mainly for her purity. Youngest of five siblings, Lili observes and absorbs, knows her rights from her wrongs and cares deeply about you and me. She is an aspirational force in my life.
Who’s the model? What’s the story?
Koi Pond is the product of my time at Kindred Studios on Goldhawk Road, West London. In kinship with the dark and wet November we were having in London at the time, I decided to paint my friend Amelia at the bottom of a pond. I used oil crayon to create rings of algae and soapy oxygen on her left, her body taking up the whole right hand side of my canvas. Amelia, or Milly, is just shy of six foot, gap-toothed and meek, a perfect girl from Wellington whose smoking father lives on ten acres of unkept farmland.
Oil paint, crayon on linen, 39x1x39”, 2021.
Koi Pond (Amelia)
$1250
Who’s the model? What’s the story?
Albufera (Mina)
Oil, acrylic on linen, 33.5x2x47.25”, 2021
$1650
Named after a nature reserve in Valencia, Spain, Albufera – which means ‘lagoon’ in Castellan Spanish, depicts three imitations of Mina’s dancer body encircled in the chambers of the human heart. Mina was a singer, I learned, and had done ballet for many years. She was short and delicate, a Spaniard girl with an angular chin and tousled brown hair. Before my time, she used to make music with my teenaged friends. She was a sensitive realist, a girl who I shared many spaces with but never at the same time. Her, then me. The depth and ecosystem of Mina’s heart inspired the emotional diagnosis of this piece. Three bodies on the canvas, and one body observing her in this room. The four main chambers of the heart.
Who’s the model? What’s the story?
Confession (Phoebe)
Oil, acrylic on linen, 33.5x2x47.25”, 2021
$1250
Who’s the model? What’s the story?
It’s strange when you meet people that look so much like your friends. Phoebe was an apparition, my age, meek, and by all accounts quite kind. I was shocked at how much she resembled my closest and dearest friend, Jemima. She had the same strong jaw, same dark hair, same arched eyebrows – even the curvature of her mouth was the same. We had never spoken before. She had never modelled nude before. There was a glimmer of self-shame. She reminded me of a preacher’s daughter in that way.
Oil, acrylic on linen, 33.5x2x47.25”, 2021
Fallopian (Intisar, Jada)
$1550
Three bodies fused together by passages of limbs and fluid channels. Fallopian celebrates the interconnectivity of women, using the female menstruation cycle as a background for the subject of community among women. Whole beauty, in every phase and in every stage. My models, Jada and Intisar, are bound together by my paint, but also by their homes, hates, loves, losses - and their shared experience of being young girls in metropolitan London. They modelled separately and never met.
Who’s the model? What’s the story?
Amnion (Simone)
Oil, acrylic on linen, 33.5x2x47.25”, 2021
$1050
Amnion was the first of this ten-portrait series. This painting is about reproduction, re-production, love, acceptance and transfers. Amnion is my take on the metamorphosis that is womanhood, and I met my model, Simone, a south-London woman, thirty-or-so, in a crowded basement room in Waterloo in late 2020. I was going to these informal life drawing sessions with my friend, Anastasia, and so we happened upon Simone by luck. She was quite unfriendly, exhibitionist, and had the largest chest I’ve seen yet in my so-far life. Her jawbone was oversized and her eyes very close together.
Who’s the model? What’s the story?
Ex Utero (Simone)
Oil, acrylic on linen, 33.5x2x47.25”, 2021
$1250
Who’s the model? What’s the story?
Ex Utero is the second painting of my life model Simone, who also appears in Divinity and Amnion. This painting shows two pregnant women re-entering the vagina. It is a comment on reincarnation and the passing down of consciousness between mother and child. Ex Utero is the most abstracted of the series, and uses fluid, expressive brushstrokes and mark making. Loosely inspired by Klimt's 'Danae,' this painting attempts to capture the stream of life which flows through all of us.
Delight (Simone)
Oil, acrylic on linen, 33.5x2x47.25”, 2021
$1050
Delight was created when I was experimenting with some life class sketches of Simone, from months prior. It’s my third painting of her. Delight was a painting I made in my teenage girlroom, following my parents’ careful instructions that I was not to get any paint on the wooden floor. I painted Delight over the span of a few hot afternoons with my door open and a fan whirring. Even with a plastic sheet, the task of not spilling paint was close to impossible. As was Simone, that rude, demanding (but magnetic) woman who I met in a basement room in Waterloo.
Who’s the model? What’s the story?
