Samara creates figurative paintings where portraits and figures emerge from layers of abstraction, texture, and paint; as though they have been waiting beneath the surface all along. Rather than working towards a predetermined outcome, she paints from instinct, emotion, and curiosity, allowing the process to guide the work. Her paintings develop through building, reworking, and responding to each mark as it appears.

What Clings to Us explores the delicate tension between attraction and unease, where the things that draw us closer can quietly begin to hold us there. The figures, webs, tentacles and creatures nod to the idea of attachment, fixation; the quiet, aching difficulty of release. Samara hopes with this collection, to blur the line between holding on and being held.

Catalogue coming soon