Ena Swansea

Ena Swansea paints portraits, cityscapes, and rural scenes with an ephemerality, seeing her paintings as film stills. The paintings are luminous, with light developed within a ghostly negative, alongside the effect of overexposure, or oversaturation. Her use of a graphite-infused ground welcomes a low, metallic shimmer to the surface, catching light as the viewer moves, imbuing the paintings with a fleeting feeling.