Through a sensitive and brooding look at the transition from childhood to adulthood. Mapping a path of loss, awkward self-awareness and developing sexuality, London based Bobbie Russon communicates her excruciating shyness as a child and the loneliness she acutely felt.

“My work comes from a deep, dark, quiet place in me and hopefully speaks to that place in others,” she says.  “If I can evoke a memory or emotion in a stranger by my own personal interpretation of a shared, but private experience, without having to use words then I feel I am succeeding.”

Dolls or animals, rather than other humans feature as companions with their almost human-like, but dumb and false understanding. Russons somber yet beautiful paintings expose an inherently ambiguous, complex nature of society’s growing fears about the loss of childhood innocence.

Please note: There is currently a waiting list for new work by Bobbie Russon, due to a number of sell-out exhibitions and art fairs. Please contact the gallery to be added to the waiting list