A Reflection on Identity

ARTIST'S STATEMENT

My paintings introduce a story to the viewer, drawing on invented and imagined contexts, places and connections for characters. The familiar and personally known are frequently merged with a store of characters from art history and literature, inviting the viewer into these sustained environments.

Through narratives my painting practice embeds existential issues: feelings of abandonment are juxtaposed with reflectiveness, disjointedness and fragmentation.

The process of deconstructing and flattening the images moves them towards the abstracted and ambiguous, forcing the viewer to fill in the spaces with something personal in order to make meaning.

Artworks for the front cover of the International Journal of Art Therapy are selected from the British Association of Art Therapists' online art galleries. For information on how to submit please see: Art Therapists' Art: www.baat.org/About-BAAT/Blog/243/Art-Therapists-Art Open Gallery: www.baat.org/About-BAAT/Blog/246/BAAT-Open-Gallery

A Reflection on Identity (Mixed media and oil paint on canvas) by Trina Hobson (2022)