Audrey Kawasaki
These mysterious oil-on-wood paintings are the work of Audrey Kawasaki who creates images seductive and vulnerable girls who captivate with viewer with their direct stare, bedroom eyes, graceful curves and haunting doll faces. Kawasaki’s works have been called both innocent and erotic. The influence of Art Nouveau is apparent throughout her works as it is clear she has drawn upon the flowing curves and influence of nature in the style.
Also worth noting is the way the artist uses the grain of the wood by rotating it to add movement and direction to her pieces, for example the girl in the wood or the final image of the girl sat amongst the flowers. Furthermore the hazy/dreamy quality of most of the images as if the viewer is separate from the paintings by a cloud of fog adds a further dimension to the images making them even more intriguing.
