figures & nudes

Lillian’s love of painting figures is evident from the beginning of her career... Read more

About Figures & Nudes:

Lillian’s love of painting figures is evident from the beginning of her career, seen in her New York studio series of large oil paintings, and continued throughout her life. The figures are usually female and often nude, yet never voyeuristic or sensual for its own sake. Rather, they invite us to an intimacy with the inner life of the subject, to glimpse a mood, a feeling or a dwelled upon thought. They also reveal Lillian’s attention and commitment to the subject: to provide both an outer expression and evoke an inner perception. This simultaneous expression of both inner and outer dimensions can be recognised in much of Lillian’s work.