Bristol based artist Dominique Garraud's (b. 1985, Surrey, England) work explores themes through the lens of memory, drawing inspiration from the unexpected emotive attachments relating to recollection and perception. Movement and transitional abstract gestures play an integral role whilst intertwining the interchangeable spaces that linger between landscape and figurative. Using painting, '...as a way in - a way to start the conversation...' Garraud pays homage to the idea of the seen and unseen; expanding on her interest in how layering, exposing, deconstructing and repositioning materials interplay - from the tactile folds of the heavyweight canvas to the purposefully irregular cutting of delicate intersecting layers of individually painted fabric. Intertwining these accents allows for the introduction of personal histories, disclosure, and informal figurative resemblance to intuitively translate, reveal and form their own narratives.

Garraud's self-taught approach enables her continued practice to be self-defining rather than confined to a linear artistic sentiment, resulting in dynamic, considered, and impactful compositions that embrace the surrender to the unknown.

Garraud's works have been exhibited and collected in the UK, Europe and the United States.