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Shower Bliss, 2020 Oil on canvas, 122 x 91.5 cm
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Self-love is the foundation of our loving practice. Without it our other efforts to love fail. Giving ourselves love we provide our inner being with the opportunity to have the unconditional love we may have always long to receive from someone else...When we give this precious gift to ourselves, we are able to reach out to others from a place of fulfillment and not from a place of lack.
bell hooks, All About Love
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You know who you are, oh one with the scales and clawed toes. You are ancient, like the dewy ferns and aromatic rivers with their milky fertile succulence. Your senses alight in the floral breeze, the red heat, the orange sunset. Surrender, oh lizard girl, the water becomes you. Dive under, and stay awhile. You are home here.
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Jizzing Flower and Shoe, 2021, Ink and watercolour on muslin, 46 x 36 cm
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In the fantasia of your pleasure, let a world emerge. Let its colors open into a mist where events unfold and your inner creatures play. Become cleansed by the maple sweetness. Become birthed. Exhale. “Yes.”
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The pictures were painted directly through me, without any preliminary drawings and with great force. I had no idea what the paintings were supposed to depict; nevertheless, I worked swiftly and surely, without changing a single brushstroke.
Hilma af Klint
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Horse Reflections, 2021, Ink on muslin, 81 x 61 cm
My heart
holds fast
upon a face
as bright
and gleaming
as the sun,—
I reach, forever, for the sun
so risen up
to love.
Sappho
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Lizard Birth, 2020Watercolour on paper, 30 x 28 cm
A friend says he thinks of gender as a color. Gender does share with color certain ontological indeterminacy: it isn’t quite right to say that an object is a color, nor that the object has a color. Context also changes it: all cats are gray, etc. Nor is color voluntary, precisely. But none of these formulations means that the object in question is colorless
Maggie Nelson, The Argonauts
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Grace Mattingly (b.1991, USA) is a London-based artist whose light-filled figurative paintings explore the transformative potential of pleasure and fantasy. She has shown at ASC Gallery in London, Big Pictures Los Angeles, and more, and has been featured in artist publications such as Art Maze Mag and Field Projects.She is a recipient of the Elizabeth Greenshields grant and was a semi-finalist for the Hopper Prize. Grace received her BA from Columbia University and is currently pursuing her MA at The Slade School of Fine Art. Grace lives and works in London, UK.
Grace Mattingly
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