Nettles

Chantel Okwesa uses painting to explore the visceral emotionality of colours and how they interact with each other. Her works search for the bridge between feeling and affect, asking how colour can be used as a mode of disruption or of agreement. Okwesa looks at how she can begin to create her own canons of colour interpretation within the work, how then can it be used as a tool to further the painting's impression? Chantel Okwesa’s works search for the bridge between feeling and affect, asking how colour can be used as a mode of disruption or of agreement. Each piece acts as a visual expedition into the memory of feeling, finding colours within prickly scents, distant sounds and the warmth of the sun at 4pm. Okwesa is interested in how memory and feeling can often embed itself within associations of fleeting colour. How the memory of a scratchy bush on the way home or a classroom in late July can find itself in transient auras of colour.