Sultry Submersion' Acrylic on Canvas, 16 by 20 The image of a womans face partly submerged looking suggestively towards you, a sultry stare, and a sirens call. With the image being amidst a body of work that was set in ‘Hollow Ponds’ of ‘Epping Forest’ it touches on the area’s seedier secrets, while also alluding to the area's notoriety for concealing bodies in its leafy boundaries. Painted in monochrome as part of a diptych with 'Lady of the Lake' as her sister, the piece pairs the subject matter, with a haunting beauty, symbolising the artists rose-tinted memories and nostalgia. Leia often chooses to depict darker subjects in 'renaissance-esq' beauty or compositions, to conceal their shadier undertones, and to depict a duality of emotions and feelings for a subject. 'Sultry Submersion' sucks you in, willingly blindfolded, to her eerie and unknown.
