Come again? Mixed media on canvas 32cm x 22cm
JESSICA CARMEN
Jessica Carmen Shamley is a Cape Town-based South African artist whose work explores femaleness, femininity and womanhood. Through mixed media and oils, she examines the often overlooked sensuality of real women, the unacknowledged strength of vulnerability and the exquisite beauty of corporeal flaws.
“I study the female form because I’m fascinated by it and I love it in all its many forms. It’s like an internal narrative that’s told on the outside,” says Shamley.
“There is absolute beauty in imperfection; imperfect is the norm. It’s what we really are.”