Pauline Boty. Circus, sold
Mixed media on canvas, 95cm x 95cm
From the collection
Women artists in the 20th century
My work focuses on times and events of social and cultural change, often set in an historical context, but with direct relevance to the present. These stories are intensively researched and results in works with a strong narrative and an emphasis on the people involved in the unfolding dramas. The motivation behind my work is directly related to my childhood growing up in 1970s Belfast. History, culture, politics and social injustice have interested me since an early age.
I have sold extensively nationally and internationally, with loyal collectors globally.
Please contact me if you would like to arrange a viewing of my work: Studio 3, The Halpern Conservancy Board Building. 15A High Street. Rochester. Kent. ME1 1PY.
“Cannery Row in Monterey in California is a poem, a stink, a grating noise, a quality of light, a tone, a habit, a nostalgia, a dream. Cannery Row is the gathered and the scattered, tin and iron and rust and splintered wood, chipped pavement and weedy lots and junk heaps, sardine canneries of corrugated iron, honky tonks, restaurants, and whore houses, and little crowded groceries, and laboratories and flophouses. Its inhabitants are, as the man once said, "whores, pimps, gamblers and sons of bitches," by which he meant Everybody. Had the man looked through another peephole he might have said, "Saints and angels and martyrs and holy men," and he would have meant the same thing.” 'Cannery Row' by John Steinbeck
