About The Artist

Primarily self-taught artist, ESS22, focuses on painting female figures using ink on paper. Their emotive figurative artwork and illustrative style draws upon more than a few influences, including: German expressionism, an intuitive aesthetic, printmaking, textiles, alternative/punx aesthetic, and tattooing. Painting on paper using ink (formerly spitshading figures before Covid-19), and sometimes adding watercolor is a fitting working medium to explore how female persons (are allowed or dare to) take up space in the world.