This vibrant painting showcases bold brushstrokes and a harmonious color palette of blues, greens, and warm tones. The central figure, a young boy, appears to be emerging from or floating in a dreamlike, aquatic environment, with his arms outstretched in a gesture of wonder or exploration. The overall composition creates a sense of movement and energy, inviting the viewer to contemplate the subject's emotional state and the symbolic significance of the imagery. The artist's distinctive style and technique suggest a exploration of themes related to the human experience, consciousness, and the natural world. ...
Through oil painting and graphite drawings inhabited by real and surreal figures, Alexa Hawksworth captures a wide variety of natures, both physical and psychological. Her characters have rictus grins, limbs that stretch and bend in unnatural ways, bordering on the comical and grotesque. Her paintings exist in their own temporality, a parallel world where forms are elongated, thrown, and twisted across the canvas. There are different rules in Hawksworth’s reality; our understanding of physics and the natural order of things does not exist there. Her fantastical and unreal compositions capture deep emotional states and desires, erupting from the canvas through vibrant color palettes. While her paintings exist in a world unlike our own, we can see our own depth of feeling reflected back at us. Her influences range from theater, performance, and film, and she generates carefully constructed scenes with immense detail and bold paint strokes, displaying an incredible understanding of color and mood. ...
