Defiance & Figurehead

Defiance

Facing up to the powerful. The unpredictable, unending and unyielding force that has its own path and destiny.

Defiance. As determined and eternal as the sea.

Figurehead

A ship is always regarded as ‘she’.

And as each voyage sets out into the unforeseen, ‘she’ must also have eyes.

The form of the ship’s figurehead looks outward to assure the safe completion of that voyage.

In FIGUREHEAD these painted female nude interpretations are told through the dynamic of the 19th century English painter J.M.W. Turner. 

Her eyes, her soul, and her strength.

Each woman the Captain of her own ship.