About

Working in acrylic on large canvases, Kim Booker uses colour, gesture and figure to express the psychology of the female experience. Dynamic strokes of charcoal and scrawls of colour expand upon the canvas reflecting both the physicality of painting and the emotions of the painter.

This new body of work features Booker’s distinctive visceral scratches and smudges, marking a negotiation between the drawn image and abstract colour. Charcoal, representing both literal and psychological darkness, stands in dialogue with colour, as Booker navigates between them. Her use of materials is often messy …