SANDRA HICKEY

Inner TurmoilsMelting BeforeYour Eyes

Sandra Hickey

Cork, Ireland www.sandrahickey.info

“I find people to be a very interesting subject matter to paint, wither it is a portrait or the figurative form as the main focus, it has always been intriguing to me. My main focus at present is the female form. We live in a culture that is saturated with images of what the ideal body and life should look like, both on social media and mainstream media. Influencers portray a life so unrealistic and unattainable with doctored imagery. It creates an unhealthy expectation of ourselves which in turn can have a negative impact on our mental health. The female form, in particular, is hit with a double standard of beauty. Never allowed to show ageing yet for men it is deemed as a distinguishing feature.

In my abstracts, I distort the human features not to make it more beautiful but to symbolize the inner turmoil of the mind and how anxiety, depression and life pressures manifest themselves in our mind.”

Text by the artist

Sandra Hickey Alone With My Thoughts, 2020 Oil on canvas 51 x 61 x 1.7 cm See availability @ricegallery.art

Sandra Hickey Tripple, 2020 Oil on canvas 51 x 61 x 1.7 cm See availability @ricegallery.art

Sandra Hickey Torn in Two, 2020 Oil on canvas 61 x 46 x 1.7 cm See availability @ricegallery.art