Bittersweet is 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.
