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We have a collection of new work from well-loved painter Veronica Wells. This collection includes four small scale intimate portraits and several large scale full scale figure paintings.

Veronica Wells draws her influences from popular culture, examining images that portray an idealised way of life. Fashion, material possessions, image, style and relationships are all explored enticing the viewer into her world. Mixing rough and broad brushstrokes with finer, more intricate details, Veronica Wells paintings questions ideas of perfection. The women she portrays are often distorted in their proportions, with faces and limbs exaggerated. Their clothing and posture is important to the image, a costume that's part of a scene played out for us.

Veronica enjoys allowing the paint a reign of its own, with drips flowing and their colours pooling and mingling. 'The effect of the paint lends an unrefined touch to the glamour portrayed and gives a feel of the momentary, like a Polaroid hung up to view a passing snapshot in time, ' she explains.