50 x 40 cm | 19 x 15 in
Subject: Abstract
Tags:
Green,
Aggressive,
Body,
Boundary
Original painting in oil on canvas.
New Blood Art emerging art prize winner, Esther Castle’s paintings are curious, sharp, and alive with invention. Surreal characters twist through thickets of colour and form - part body, part object, part story in motion. The work has humour, but it’s not light. There’s something else underneath: a feeling of being watched, misread, transformed.
They’re not wild - they’re wise. Peculiar, yes. Playful, yes. But rooted. What they carry is precise - something true about control, containment, resistance. Esther uses scale and surface to hold our gaze, but never neatly. There’s always a kind of blur. A tension that doesn’t settle. Something weirdly alive just below.
She’s not illustrating a narrative - she’s building a world. One where discomfort isn’t denied, but reimagined. Where oddness is generative. Where looking becomes part of the point.