Hidden Emotions - print of acrylic painting by Madison Mitchell

ARTIST STATEMENT: My artwork is about the need to look closer to really understand people and be able to empathise with them. When you look at people from a distance and don’t pay close attention you can never really understand them as human beings. If people are hiding mental health issues, then understanding their individual elements is essential if you are to have any understanding of the whole. My painting works in the same way: when you glance at it from a far everything seems cohesive and clear but the closer you get the more you begin to understand what is really going on and how each pixel has its own individual quality, its own individual flaws. ABOUT THE ARTIST: This piece is Shortlisted in the 2021 Sovereign Art Foundation Students Prize in Guernsey. Madison created this piece aged 17 while a student at Ladies College. Madison was also shortlisted in 2020 for her artwork "Supporting Structures, Opposing Textures."