'Pandora's Box' by Belinda Ireland
'Pandora's Box'
29.5 x 42 cm
Oil Paint, Chalk Pastel on Primed Cartridge
2024
£500
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Belinda Ireland studied Fine Art Painting at the Central School of Art and Design in London. Working in oil, pastel or charcoal, she weaves narratives based on her experience of childhood and adolescence with stories, symbols and icons of the late 20th and early 21st century popular culture. Belinda’s work has been selected for the Pastel Society Opens at Mall Galleries London in 2024 and 2025, and her paintings and drawings are held in private collections. She now lives and works in South Devon. “There is no beginning or end to the narratives in my paintings and drawings. Each is a moment, an exchange, in a tableau of suggestion”. Belinda’s work brings together narratives based on her experience of childhood and adolescence, and issues of social convention and aspiration with the symbols and icons of late 20th and early 21st century culture. In oil, pastel and charcoal she explores vivid imaginary worlds, combining personal memory with imagery from films, magazines and television to create curious scenes that reveal the depth of her inner life, and reflect changing attitudes to gender, race and relationships through her playful presentations of pop culture. Often, Belinda paints herself within a work, a participant in the drama and romance of a fantasy world where longings and fears are mixed with inspirational stories and characters. Her compositions evolve through the cutting out and assembling of drawn or found images that reference her childhood experiences. Her use of light and structure is drawn from both 17th century painting and 20th century cinematography, while her approach to colour flattens the image into a cats-eye of shifting visual information that blurs the boundary between fact and fiction.
'Pandora's Box'
29.5 x 42 cm
Oil Paint, Chalk Pastel on Primed Cartridge
2024
£500
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Belinda Ireland studied Fine Art Painting at the Central School of Art and Design in London. Working in oil, pastel or charcoal, she weaves narratives based on her experience of childhood and adolescence with stories, symbols and icons of the late 20th and early 21st century popular culture. Belinda’s work has been selected for the Pastel Society Opens at Mall Galleries London in 2024 and 2025, and her paintings and drawings are held in private collections. She now lives and works in South Devon. “There is no beginning or end to the narratives in my paintings and drawings. Each is a moment, an exchange, in a tableau of suggestion”. Belinda’s work brings together narratives based on her experience of childhood and adolescence, and issues of social convention and aspiration with the symbols and icons of late 20th and early 21st century culture. In oil, pastel and charcoal she explores vivid imaginary worlds, combining personal memory with imagery from films, magazines and television to create curious scenes that reveal the depth of her inner life, and reflect changing attitudes to gender, race and relationships through her playful presentations of pop culture. Often, Belinda paints herself within a work, a participant in the drama and romance of a fantasy world where longings and fears are mixed with inspirational stories and characters. Her compositions evolve through the cutting out and assembling of drawn or found images that reference her childhood experiences. Her use of light and structure is drawn from both 17th century painting and 20th century cinematography, while her approach to colour flattens the image into a cats-eye of shifting visual information that blurs the boundary between fact and fiction.
'Pandora's Box'
29.5 x 42 cm
Oil Paint, Chalk Pastel on Primed Cartridge
2024
£500
Bespoke framing available for Greater London collectors only | Lead time is 8 weeks from confirmation
Belinda Ireland studied Fine Art Painting at the Central School of Art and Design in London. Working in oil, pastel or charcoal, she weaves narratives based on her experience of childhood and adolescence with stories, symbols and icons of the late 20th and early 21st century popular culture. Belinda’s work has been selected for the Pastel Society Opens at Mall Galleries London in 2024 and 2025, and her paintings and drawings are held in private collections. She now lives and works in South Devon. “There is no beginning or end to the narratives in my paintings and drawings. Each is a moment, an exchange, in a tableau of suggestion”. Belinda’s work brings together narratives based on her experience of childhood and adolescence, and issues of social convention and aspiration with the symbols and icons of late 20th and early 21st century culture. In oil, pastel and charcoal she explores vivid imaginary worlds, combining personal memory with imagery from films, magazines and television to create curious scenes that reveal the depth of her inner life, and reflect changing attitudes to gender, race and relationships through her playful presentations of pop culture. Often, Belinda paints herself within a work, a participant in the drama and romance of a fantasy world where longings and fears are mixed with inspirational stories and characters. Her compositions evolve through the cutting out and assembling of drawn or found images that reference her childhood experiences. Her use of light and structure is drawn from both 17th century painting and 20th century cinematography, while her approach to colour flattens the image into a cats-eye of shifting visual information that blurs the boundary between fact and fiction.