Daisy Parris - Artist of Interest

Interview with Daisy Parris from Emergent Magazine by Alex Leav.

State of the Arts, Daisy Parris and Wells Frays Smith, YouTube, The Institutum 2022

Taken from Sim Smith Gallery website: https://www.sim-smith.com/artists/32-daisy-parris/biography/

Daisy Parris is a painter of psychological space. Direct text-based works and abstract paintings are made up of a vernacular that has developed through experience, relationships and through the depths and the peaks of their human existence thus far. Parris brings intimacy, insight and integrity to their paintings with great psychological and emotional force. The work is imbued with the sensitivity of one who feels everything, taking us through unflinching narratives and moments of reflection and tenderness. An ode to human existence, their work is sometimes silent, sometimes savage, with paintings that construct self portraits of personal battles and triumphs in a fast moving yet contemplative assault on the canvas.

Comment: I like her use of colour. I like her use of evocative brush stroke and the energy and pace in the works. I like the introduction of paper or canvas and words. I like that they are autobiographical. I like the titles of the works. I like the idea of psychological space. I like that there is a rawness to her work.