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untitled (nurse Gray) Pure Beauty incm oil on wooden panel 24 x48" 2003

untitled (nurse Gray) Pure Beauty inc, oil on wooden panel 24 x48" 2003

untitled (nurse Gray) Pure Beauty inc, oil on wooden panel 24 x48" 2003

untitled (nurse Gray and bottom re shaping ) Pure Beauty inc oil on wooden panel  37 x24" 2003

untitled (botox) Pure Beauty inc oil on wooden panel 24 x48" 2003

untitled (eye lift) Pure Beauty inc oil on wooden panel 24 x48" 2003

untitled (nurse Gray) Pure Beauty inc oil on wooden panel 30 x 30" 2003

untitled (nurse Gray + saw) Pure Beauty inc oil on wooden panel 30 x 30" 2003

 untitled (botox) Pure Beauty inc oil on wooden panel 30 x 30" 2003

untitled (pink builders equipment) Pure Beauty inc oil on wooden panel 37 x24" 2003

untitled (pink builders equipment) detail Pure Beauty inc oil on wooden panel 37 x24" 2003

Installation view House of Beauty 2003

Installation view House of Beauty 2003

Installation view House of Beauty 2003

Installation view House of Beauty 2003

The Pleasure Beings

 untitled Pleasure Being series Oil on wooden panel 18 x 24" 2002

The crotch shot

Pleasure Being series Oil on wooden panel 18 x 24" 2002

Untitled Pleasure Being series Oil on wooden panel 18 x 24" 2002

Untitled Pleasure Being series Oil on wooden panel 18 x 24" 2002

The Money Shot. Pleasure Being series Oil on wooden panel x 24 x 60 " 2002

Untitled Pleasure Being series Oil on wooden panel 18 x 24 " 2002

 untitled Pleasure Being series Oil on wooden panel 12 x 24" 2002

untitled (pink car) Pleasure Being series Oil on wooden panel 50 x 30" 2002

 

untitled Pleasure Being series Oil on wooden panel 12 x 24" 2002

untitled Pleasure Being series Oil on wooden panel 12 x 24" 2002

untitled Pleasure Being series Oil on wooden panel 12 x 24" 2002

The Forest paintings

The Four Elementals in a Tree, 24" x 24", oil on wooden panel, 2015

Girl in a Forest, 20 x 16" oil on wooden panel, 2015

                        

Lady in forest rapture, 18 x 20, oil on wooden panel, 2015   

Lovers and white owl, 16 x 16", oil on wooden panel, 2015   

                  

             Riding a Stag, 16 x 20", oil on wooden panel, 2015                 

The Forest Adventures of Amelia Heart-Air

The Forest Adventures of Amelia Heart-Air

Amelia Heart-Air, oil on panel 8 x10" 2015

She knew the deer was a sign, oil on panel 8 x10" 2015

Hair on Fire,  oil on panel 8 x10" 2015

The Tree-hugger, oil on panel 8 x10" 2015

The Raven and the Moon, oil on panel 8 x10" 2015

The Dream with Three Snakes, oil on panel 8 x10" 2015

The Forest Queen, oil on panel 8 x10" 2015

Rallying Cry, oil on panel 8 x10" 2015

The Tree-climbers, oil on panel 8 x10" 2015

Underneath the waterfall, oil on panel 8 x10" 2015

The centrifugal force connected their energies,

 it was also a handy technique for drying ones hair

 oil on panel 8 x10" 2015

Twin Flames, oil on panel 8 x10" 2015

Bow-down, oil on panel 8 x10" 2015

The Tree, oil on panel 8 x10" 2015

The initiate—a modern day, reality TV-watching housewife Amelia Heart-Air—ventures in to the forest, desperately seeking reconnection with nature and an escape from daily life. In analytical psychology, the forest represents the unconscious and the feminine as perceived by a young boy or man: a disturbing territory as yet unexplored. But here, it is a spiritual testing ground for our initiate, a realm of death holding the secrets of nature that man/woman must penetrate to tap hidden meaning. Trees are often seen as maternal symbols; yet, at the same time, the erect trunk is a phallic symbol. Perhaps this is why, for Carl Jung, the tree symbolized the Self, androgyny and individuation.

The paintings, follow Amelia Heart-Air’s imagined forest sojourn, as both an exercise in foraging the seeker’s unconscious and a light-hearted progression from Emma Gray’s last series of paintings, “The Streakers”.

Pussy Riot portraits

Forest Streakers (studies)

More streaker/nature studies

 8 x 10" oil on canvas panel 2015