Hi,
Welcome to my website.
Here you will find a selection of my paintings and drawings from 2009 onwards. I try and update the site regularly with current and past work.
For insight on my work please see the
About page.
For any questions, suggestions, exhibiting opportunities or for information about the price and size of any piece please click on this link
contact@sophieadamsart.com.
Thanks,
Sophie Adams
Works for Sale and Commissions Taken Please Contact:
contact@sophieadamsart.com
"My skin doesn’t feel so porcelain now."
Extract from an untitled poem by Sophie Adams
This quote relates to my art being drawn from my own lived experiences, giving a transcendent, transformative power. As I paint, I learn.
"A man who owns a comb and a tree / Is good for poetry/ Everything that leads to nothing at all/
And that you cannot sell at the market /Such as, for instance, the green heart of birds, /Is good for
poetry /Everything that our civilization rejects, /Tramples and pisses on, is good for poetry
/ Self-moving debris, cans, is good for poetry /Discarded things are very important—
Things with no importance are poetic assets."
Extract from ' The Expositive Grammar of the Floor' by the poet Manuel De Barros.
This quote reminds me to sustain in myself a spirit of curiosity, an openness of mind. That the most banal things- especially those things, ideas, people, emotions, objects that are considered unimportant and useless to selfish economic gain and progression do have a poetics, an inspirational power. I aim to look everywhere and without bigotry or fashionable concerns.
If I were to tag my paintings, or try to encapsulate the general themes I address, they would be; identity, dreams, womanhood, childhood, metaphysics, erotica, sexuality, distress, secrecy, revelation, diaries, humour, and expressing my experiences in an attempt to find some common ground with others.
Artists whose work I like include Francesco Clemente, Karel Appel, Charlotte Salomon, Marlene Dumas, Goya, Lindsey Bull, Otto Dix, Balthus, Philip Guston, Jonathan Meese, and Lygia Clarke.
Please don’t hesitate to contact me with questions at
contact@sophieadamsart.com
Text by Sophie Adams 2013
