Emma Itzstein’s latest body of work Clementine’s Garden explores both art and the garden as an expression of untamed resilience. Her artworks communicate a quiet feminism. Itzstein creates dynamic compositions through a bold use of colour and expressive brushwork. Hues of pink, purple and green are unified in her depiction of a perennial garden as a symbol for survival and renewal.

The collection of 12 oil paintings render garden landscapes as a window into the artists inner psychology, where she draws heavily from her personal experiences as a mother. Clementine’s Garden explores themes of quiet protest, loneliness and freedom. Through the act of painting Itzstein creates tactile and layered artworks that are imbedded with their own history; a visual journal of revealing and concealing. She captures the garden as an expression of the duality of being a mother. She explores weathering and vulnerability whilst honouring resilience and the cultivation of growth in the face of imperfection.

Itzstein describes Clementine’s Garden ‘as a space in the mind - much like the painting studio - a space for freedom and solitude.’ For the artist her studio provides a retreat from - and rebellion against expectation and duty. It is here that she creates paintings that honour the way in which we thrive under varied conditions. Clementine’s Garden demonstrates Itzstein’s refusal to be bound by tradition.