Compose Yourself
acrylic and sand on canvas48x 56cm
(2024)
Compose Yourself uses text as an ‘elongated gesture’, sharing the same plane as the painterly lines. The text is conversational, representing rambling inner thoughts or casual speech, with a self deprecating undertone familiar within many of Jenny’s paintings. The artist is coming to terms with their own inner monologue and attempting to be more outspoken - an inherently un-british and un-working class act - But there is the relatable and shared experience of embarressment in doing so.
