Darling Jerry is a body of work drawn directly over handwritten letters from the 1950s - private correspondence filled with tenderness, longing, and everyday vulnerability. These found texts become both ground and companion to the drawings, holding traces of real lives, real voices, and real emotional weight.
Across the series, gestural, figurative studies of the female form are layered over the words. The figures are not idealised or posed for perfection; they are drawn to be felt rather than observed - expressive, physical, and human. The marks are instinctive and loose, responding to the emotional tone of each letter rather than illustrating it.
Clothing, pattern, posture, and bare skin appear and disappear across the works, creating a shifting conversation between what is revealed and what is withheld. The handwritten text remains partially visible beneath the paint, creating a quiet tension between language and body, memory and presence, what was said and what is unsayable.
These pieces are about intimacy, vulnerability, and the strange tenderness of being human in relationship with others. The letters carry voices from the past; the drawings bring them into the present, allowing new meanings to surface through mark, rhythm, and form.
Darling Jerry is an exploration of emotional residue - how stories live on in paper, in bodies, and in the spaces between what we write and what we feel.
Darling Jerry is a body of work drawn directly over handwritten letters from the 1950s - private correspondence filled with tenderness, longing, and everyday vulnerability. These found texts become both ground and companion to the drawings, holding traces of real lives, real voices, and real emotional weight.
Across the series, gestural, figurative studies of the female form are layered over the words. The figures are not idealised or posed for perfection; they are drawn to be felt rather than observed - expressive, physical, and human. The marks are instinctive and loose, responding to the emotional tone of each letter rather than illustrating it.
Clothing, pattern, posture, and bare skin appear and disappear across the works, creating a shifting conversation between what is revealed and what is withheld. The handwritten text remains partially visible beneath the paint, creating a quiet tension between language and body, memory and presence, what was said and what is unsayable.
These pieces are about intimacy, vulnerability, and the strange tenderness of being human in relationship with others. The letters carry voices from the past; the drawings bring them into the present, allowing new meanings to surface through mark, rhythm, and form.
Darling Jerry is an exploration of emotional residue - how stories live on in paper, in bodies, and in the spaces between what we write and what we feel.
