EMMAPENNINGTON

My work is about the disruption of personal, intimate spaces. I create paintings with distorted perspectives, exaggerated color, clashing imagery, and incongruous architectural scale to challenge the idea of psychological and emotional normalcy Perception and reality have always been interesting to me, and as I paint interiors from memory, the overlaps and contrasts between what we see, know, and remember become embedded into my process

My work is not meant to be an accurate representation of a real space, but rather a reflection of an experience, memory, or emotion Some of my interiors depict impactful environments I have witnessed throughout my life, and many are reinvented from memories of my childhood home because I am particularly interested in how our ideas of safety and our perspective on the world shift as we age I also create my very own spaces that do not exist anywhere in real life and are built purely from my own psychological imprints

Inspiration is found through cluttered spaces and areas that feel busy because it is through this chaos and imperfection that we really grow to understand our relationship with space and architecture. Color is an important element in my work, and by using bolder colors that contrast with a painting’s disorientation, it is my way of creating a visual anchor for myself and the viewer. These pieces are meant to challenge the viewer’s sense of normalcy, what is realistic and unrealistic, and to undo the human need to find order and organization in space.