Watercolor on paper, framed with museumglass.
Vile creatures
A natural history of my ex-boyfriends
Lindsey Carr (Glasgow, GB) has an unmistakable, sophisticated style. She makes stylistic choices from traditional naturalistic painting, which she combines with her own contemporary concepts.
Carr created the series ‘Vile Creatures’ with the memories of her ex-lovers in mind, influenced by 18th-century European and Chinese natural history paintings.
Works as relics from a bygone era, with a touch of surrealism.
Her titles ‘The Exhibitionists’, ‘The Voyeur’, ‘Gold Digger’ and ‘Sneaky Bitch’ say enough about these intensively executed, original and unveiling watercolours.
Each artwork has a own poem, written by Angharad Jefferson (Wales):
The Exhibitionists
I’m alright,
Jack said to Jill.
My future’s bright
I’ve got this pill.
BLUE DIAMOND
will be my best friend.
I’ll hit the bars,
my money spend
on hope and hate
of women who,
I can’t make cum
and look like you.
About the Artist:
Lindsey Carr is an artist based in Scotland with a remarkable ability to revisit movements of past art periods and re-interpret them in her own unique and incomparable manner. Her work has evolved over the last decade from a surrealist blend of traditional naturalist painting and self-referential Orientalism.
Over the past couple of years she has lent her talent for re-invention to 17th Century Dutch tulip paintings, through a process of distortion by degrees, resulting in technically astounding and visually captivating botanical portraiture.