Lisa Hebden - Portfolio Gallery

Girls

2008 - 2011


These paintings focus on the strength and vulnerability of young girls.


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On the cusp of adolescence, they are caught between the comfort of childhood and the anticipation of being "grown up."


Their bodies are changing, attracting new kinds of attention. They become women on the outside and yet remain, in many ways, child-like.


Beneath the placid prettiness of the girls' faces is a storm of splattered paint, which mirror the layers of emotion, the anticipation of new experiences and the possibility of past experiences a viewer would not expect of someone so young.


There is so much happening in the mind and body of a girl on the cusp of adulthood. This fragile, tumultuous time is the foundation of my work.

Ella Painted

Narrative Spaces

2009 - 2011


Playground focuses on young children, on being small and feeling small both physically and psychologically.


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The foundation of this work lies in the strength and fragility of childhood.


I combine imagery derived from my drawings, photographs, and ephemera to develop scenes that could exist in the real world, but which have an otherworldliness to them.


The irregularities that occur in the resulting figures further evoke a sense of transition. The luminosity of each moment is made more potent by the knowledge that it is fleeting. I like the idea that an apparently light scene has an indefinable, darker side.