Izzy Bouric: No Going Back

Izzy Bouric makes paintings in a single sitting and rarely goes back. They don't look laboured over. They look seized.

The figures in them, sleeping, falling, caught between states, unresolved , carry that urgency.

Grief, displacement, and barely-graspable feeling pressed directly into oil pastel and charcoal before they've been fully understood. The fluid made solid. The internal made physical.

She describes her practice as "recording fleeting feelings" : states of being, in her words, are "like water," taking the shape of whatever predicament they find themselves in. She didn't know for a long time that the work was sad. That quality of self-discovery through making, rather than before it, is what gives the paintings their particular charge.

Bouric holds a BA in Painting from Camberwell College of Arts, UAL. Her work has been shown across London and Paris, including a residency at Openbach and a solo exhibition, Flight: Expanded View, at Gallery 19a, London.