JENA SHARP
EAST YORKSHIRE
She works with a multitude of media but currently primarily works with paint and ink. She finds inspiration in her mental health to fuel her work, muddling through her difficulties to create relatable pieces of art. To her, creating means expressing herself. It's at the forefront of how she processes her emotions.
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'perpetualparanoia'
Surrealism as a movement is particularly close to her heart and practice; her grandmother, who is her biggest inspiration, loved Dali.
She also finds a deep connection with uncomfortable or dark art which calls for the viewer to question reality, Zdzisław Beksiński in particular. Some of her current inspirations include Tanya Shatseva, Kim Jakobsson, Oh De Laval, Dusty Ray and Agostino Arrivabene.
'inner'
'slaved'
Creating for her is highly therapeutic. She is drawn to paint due to the freedom it inspires to create surrealist pieces. Additionally she is a photographer at heart and loves to capture physical and present issues as they are, while still alluding to a surrealist twist.
FUN FACT:
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Her guilty pleasure is playing Fortnite with her sister.