'For Those Who Enter' by Mya Kerner
'For Those Who Enter'
23 x 30.5 cm
Oil Stick on Yupo
2024
£475
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Mya Kerner (b. 1989, Philadelphia, PA, USA) is a multidisciplinary artist painting and writing the landscape, referencing inner, outer, and other worlds as she depicts the deciduous wetland on which she resides. After a decade in other places, she now lives and works in a historic roadhouse in Eastern Pennsylvania. Raised on Slavic stories in an American suburb, I spent my childhood searching for secrets bursting from flower buds, flowing between rocks, buried under fallen leaves, and whispered on the wind. This practice has permeated my approach to painting. My paintings on paper are first rendered loosely, wildly with oil sticks and hands on a slippery surface. The raw imagery is a response to shifting seasons, changes in vegetation, celestial passages, the swelling and ebbing of water that permeates the house. Later, I revisit these small works and write short stories in response to memories that arise. My words describe this place and its inhabitants, the forces of nature, my dreams, and experiences of stewardship and motherhood. The work holds a record of my relationship with the land.
'For Those Who Enter'
23 x 30.5 cm
Oil Stick on Yupo
2024
£475
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Mya Kerner (b. 1989, Philadelphia, PA, USA) is a multidisciplinary artist painting and writing the landscape, referencing inner, outer, and other worlds as she depicts the deciduous wetland on which she resides. After a decade in other places, she now lives and works in a historic roadhouse in Eastern Pennsylvania. Raised on Slavic stories in an American suburb, I spent my childhood searching for secrets bursting from flower buds, flowing between rocks, buried under fallen leaves, and whispered on the wind. This practice has permeated my approach to painting. My paintings on paper are first rendered loosely, wildly with oil sticks and hands on a slippery surface. The raw imagery is a response to shifting seasons, changes in vegetation, celestial passages, the swelling and ebbing of water that permeates the house. Later, I revisit these small works and write short stories in response to memories that arise. My words describe this place and its inhabitants, the forces of nature, my dreams, and experiences of stewardship and motherhood. The work holds a record of my relationship with the land.
'For Those Who Enter'
23 x 30.5 cm
Oil Stick on Yupo
2024
£475
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Mya Kerner (b. 1989, Philadelphia, PA, USA) is a multidisciplinary artist painting and writing the landscape, referencing inner, outer, and other worlds as she depicts the deciduous wetland on which she resides. After a decade in other places, she now lives and works in a historic roadhouse in Eastern Pennsylvania. Raised on Slavic stories in an American suburb, I spent my childhood searching for secrets bursting from flower buds, flowing between rocks, buried under fallen leaves, and whispered on the wind. This practice has permeated my approach to painting. My paintings on paper are first rendered loosely, wildly with oil sticks and hands on a slippery surface. The raw imagery is a response to shifting seasons, changes in vegetation, celestial passages, the swelling and ebbing of water that permeates the house. Later, I revisit these small works and write short stories in response to memories that arise. My words describe this place and its inhabitants, the forces of nature, my dreams, and experiences of stewardship and motherhood. The work holds a record of my relationship with the land.