“I use the human form to examine…tensions between light and colour, culture and emotion.”

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Chrissy Thirlaway is a fine and creative artist working out of Brixton, South London and Los Angeles, California. She began serious drawing, she would say, at the age of nine, during a period of several years living in Brazil and with no contact with other children.

“Like many people, I've felt a bit of an outsider since I was a child, born in one country, raised in another… Drawing was my companion and my teacher then, and still is now, allowing me to relate and respect the subject.” For Chrissy, drawing was and is a journey of exploration “of our interface with the world I find myself living in and its consequences. I am in awe of the beauty of what is.  What comes from me are delicate, precise, emotional narratives about [people’s] common experiences and what it is to be human beings.”

The process of painting is an extended, layered process of her practice, often taking months to complete, while clarifying her insight(s) into the impulse(s) for a particular work. Sometimes, it is a window into the world she knows, and other times the canvas' edge is the world.  Her subjects are naked and natural, stripped of all disguise, and in their nudity are both vulnerable and powerful.   

Chrissy also works in three dimensions - including textile, copper and glass - and her work is held in private collections in the United Kingdom, the USA, Brazil, Indonesia, Qatar, Portugal, Germany and France. Intimate Stories is her latest solo show.

A free exhibition, with proceeds from all sales going to the artist’s growth and funding public programmes in advancing and diversifying engagement in visual storytelling.

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