Colleen Tully

My artwork displays emotion and memory, engaging in the human experience through familiar subjects and ominous dream like environments or backgrounds, expressing not only a likeness of character, but a unique visual perspective into the narrative of the person being represented. The images of people and environments I create invoke similar and familiar emotions, feelings, memories, events, and dreams, which correspond within the imaginative fictional narrative that I deliver through these portraits. I use human subjects to unite this experience by creating a familiarity between the two.

Often, my work involves human representations with real emotion to initiate familiarity. These images designate stark reality to enrich the intensity of the portraits and the atmospheres they create; I employ selected materials to induce haunting and emotive images that provoke empathy of the human condition. Furthermore, my work is constructed of oil on canvas. My subjects are re imagined by my gathering of images that are constructed out of first, my imagination and my use of sketching and image collaging.

captivating the human condition and the narratives that surround and encompass our lives. A collective of haunting oil work on canvas that describe our emotive journey and the missing pieces that convey our longing to be complete. My work invokes feeling and emotion through striking visuals of human subject matter of figurative imaginative realism in oil paint. Imaginative realism is to make the unseen, seen through representations of imagining pieces of an image that do not exist and manifesting them into images of what is familiar. I use figurative art that re-imagine and express the human condition by envisioning dreamlike narratives that embody and reveal wistful, emotional perceptions.