Paris Foot
Degree: BA Fine Art
University: Falmouth University
Graduation Year: 2010
New Blood Art Commentary
Paris Blanche Magenta Foot's paintings retain a unique and distinctive visual language, which is immediately recognizable and absorbing. Foot’s mixed media pieces are also brilliant; tactile and engaging - and quite touching. The faces of the pieces - caught somewhere between figuration, puppetry and debris – are reminiscent of the luminous faces of the films of the silent era, despite being based on personal source material culled and elevated from family photographs. Stylistically incongruent, the expressions of the figures seem sweetly unaware of what the rest of them are made up of.
Artist Statement
I have always been drawn to vibrant colours, bold prints and busy patterns. I collect visual inspiration like a magpie. I see a garment, perhaps a vivid colour, on a passing stranger that catches my eye and I recall this as I paint, allowing a narrative to play out in my head as I do so. The female form is another love of mine and something that will manifest into many of my paintings. The figures come close to being lost in or consumed by their overwhelming attire and backdrop; though somehow, they remain. These women are subtley, yet marvelously, defiant with a raised eyebrow or a knowing smile they say: "Do not underestimate me, there is a mind under this hat"."
Solo Exhibitions
(2022) Strength of a Woman, Neohori Bohemian Art Space, Isle of Lefkas
(2020) Patterns for life, Neohori Bohemian Art Space, Lefkada Island, Greece
(2018) Adventures in Colour, Zita, Lefkada, Greece
(2014) Strange Things, Cleopatra, Lefkada, Greece
Group Exhibitions
(2020) Seven Women, Zita, Lefkada, Greece
(2020) Wild and Free, Zita, Lefkada, Greece
(2019) Memories of Greece, Stamnos Viewing Space, Lefkada, Greece
(2010) Stone Soup, The Rag Factory, Brick Lane, London