Bio
Born. 1998
2017-2021 Grays School of Art
BA Fine Art Painting
Artist CV:
Two Halves, Group show 2019
Aberdeen Artist society exhibition 2020
Figuratively Speaking, Group show 2020
With Love, Group show 2020
Resonant Strangeness, Online show 2020
Auc Art Group show 2021
Grays School of Art Degree Show 2021
All Mouth Gallery Small Pleasures II 2021
Euphoria, Group show with Procrastinarting 2021
Port of Call, Changing room Group show 2021
Out of the Pan and into the Woods, Group show 2021
Art on a postcard Winter Exhibition 2021
Blue Shop Cottage WOP 4 2022
Soho Revue and The Little Red Door 2022
We Are What We See, Glimpses, 2022
Otherlands, Black White Gallery 2022
Yule, Anima Mundi 2022
Ostara, Anima Mundi 2023
New Contemporaries, Royal Scottish Academy 2023
Blue Shop Cottage WOP 5 2023
Intersections, Black White Gallery 2023
Bodies, Gluttony and Me, Pictorum Gallery 2023
Neo Gothic, OHSH 2023
The Grass Are Green, The Flowers Is Brown and Crimson, Anima Mundi, Solo Show 2023
My Soul Hurts and I think I have Tinnitus, 2024, Calcio Gallery
Artist Statement:
Faye Eleanor Woods sensual paintings act as a love letter to her own experience, full of life’s joy, absurdity, humour, loss and fear. Using raw pigments and acrylic ink she forces rich colour into the grain of the canvas, blurring edges with copious amounts of water or using thin layers of oil to blend the figures with their backgrounds creating an ethereal presence. As Woods says “I try to bring attention to the surreal aspects of life and the way the oddness of experience manifests within individuals and how that manifestation then affects me. In my vulnerability I crave strange moments of intimacy. I imagine drinking straight from the tap of all emotion, drinking so much of it, I take on too much and I’m sick and everything I spew out ends up in my work.”
Inherently influenced by British folklore and folk horror, Woods paintings tell their own tales rooted in corporeal experience which then becomes heightened or exaggerated resulting in a form of magical realism. A spirit of excess runs throughout the scenes that she depicts. Empowered yet vulnerable, the behaviour of paint sensualises her ruby red mouths, flushed cheeks, pert nipples and knees rubbed raw. Dancing, leaping, cavorting figures in various states of consciousness or undress, partake in a bacchanale which defies the hypocrisy of supposed propriety and convention, challenging the stiff upper lip. Eyes shine with ecstatic bewitchment as her animalistic protagonists dance and leap in a debaucherous state which teeters on the fine line edge between calamity and joy. What is conveyed is the relatable oddness that exists between the magical and the mundane.
Contact:
Instagram: @faye_eleanor_woods
Email: fayeewoods@gmail.com