Deborah Poynton

Born 1970 in Durban, South Africa

 

Deborah Poynton's disturbing paintings explore the disjunctions between our inner worlds and outer realities. She chooses to depict circumstances that we immediately recognise, yet which, on closer examination, are invariably not quite as we expect. Such illusions leave the viewer awkward and uncertain whether the world is really how it seems. Throughout her work, the vulnerability and loneliness of everyday life, and the isolation of the individual in our noisy and crowded contemporary world, are immediately apparent.



Deborah Poynton, Untitled, 2007, oil on canvas, 200 x 300cm