Marksman Gallery is delighted to present a new body of work from Machiko Edmondson.

The new work is an evolution from her previous paintings, having more in common her smaller drawing pieces, these paintings promise to be dark, seductive and precious.

Edmondson refers to her practice as a representation of painting rather than as being representational. Despite the overt use of faces as her image source, she regards her work as neither figurative paintings or as portraits of people. Employing the momentary seduction of fashion photography to lure the viewer into the world of idealised beauty, her paintings mimic the styles and codes of the desire industry to question the values and obsessions of aspirational perfection.