Audrey Kawasaki

Audrey Kawasaki’s oil paintings of women on wood have a languid sensuality and haunting seductiveness. Their half-closed eyes seem to draw us in, but there is also something unsettling about the women, like sirens luring us into the water to drown. There is a subtle eeriness visible through occasional grotesque touches-a spider in hair, a skeleton winding around a woman-which makes us look twice, for these images are not merely pretty, but palpable with undercurrents of something bad about to happen, if we look for too long.

See lots more of Audrey's work at http://www.audrey-kawasaki.com/