Belle DeMont - Acrylic on Canvas

My work centers around the borderlines of light and dark. I use a range of mediums and subject matters to explore the connection to this space. I feel that this line between good and bad, soft and rough, sweet and bitter, is a recurring pattern of nature. My art is at its most honest when I make space for both.

My artistic practice varies from contemporary landscape paintings, to naked figures of women’s bodies, to charcoal portraits of coal miners. What separates my artforms from one another is less important than what connects them. They are how I express my shared experience with the spaces and people around me.

I use traditionally feminine colours to explore the contradicting elements of nature. These elements are what I am drawn to in landscapes, people and in myself. There is a thin line of opposing systems that I am looking to portray through my experience as an artist and as a woman.