Lydia Mutone
Lydia Mutone’s work focuses on figures and incorporates elements of space, primarily utilising oil paint or airbrushed dye.
Her paintings feature flat, filled spaces with bright, saturated colours, achieved both digitally and through traditional means. Her process involves pushing images back and forth between traditional canvas and Photoshop, which she uses as a means of abstraction to create her final paintings. The works are characterised by their vibrant, architecturally-fluid colour schemes and play with legibility and abstraction by revealing and concealing space while the figures compete for the foreground. Mutone’s current work includes a series of “bedroom paintings”, which aim to create intimacy between the viewer and the subject through close collaboration and exploration of their relationship.