Acrylic on canvas
213,2 x 182 x 3,8 cm
Bodies, flora and fauna, the city around her, these forms recur across the artist’s work, indexes for the emotional acuities and atmospheric intensities that occupy her time in the studio. In Falling out of love with you, this tension between interior and exterior realms comes into sharper focus, as a gowned and gloved figure gazes across the harbour toward Manhattan, a single long-stemmed rose in hand. Looser, prosaic florals anchor the edges of the canvas, set against a patchwork of crimsons and golds. These arrangements puncture the shield of night, suggesting a scene about to end, as the title also elegiacally suggest.