I Can Buy Myself Flowers

I Can Buy Myself FlowersAlison is primarily a printmaker and ink artist exploring the way we express reality through narrative based artworks. In 2016, while studying a Masters of Art in Visual Art, she was diagnosed with obsessive compulsive personality disorder, anxiety, depressive episodes, and obsessive perfectionism. After completing her studies, this diagnosis and subsequent treatment led her art practice in an introspective direction, landing in a solo exhibition

Through a labyrinth of hypnotic patterns

using vibrant colours

and connection

Natasha’s paintings bring us to a place where realism and imagination meet

vulnerability

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the story isn't over

The final image is my vision of this destruction

This piece invites reflection on the world we create through language

While trying to build a strong sense of self

Running Duck Studio's artwork has become more light-hearted and uplifting

A classic Indo-Western vase - shaped by colonisation yet tied to Goan heritage - is repaired with gold and repurposed to hold brushes where flowers might bloom