Just looking -the gift of presence
JUST LOOKING The Gift of Presence Just Looking is an encounter between two people. We sit together within a carefully held space, informed by the therapeutic principles of unconditional positive
Tracie Peisley
Peisley’s work is intense, highly charged with an emotional content that relates to the everyday drama of existing.
An experienced British Artist, she qualified with a BA(hons) in Fine Art at Bath Academy 1988, MA at City Of Birmingham Polytechnic 1989 and MA in Art Psychotherapy in 2006 at Hertfordshire University.
Following a rigorous training in drawing and a lively discourse at Bath Academy, she positions herself alongside contemporary Women Artists, exploring themes of intimacy, storytelling, identity, vulnerability and shame. What it is to be human…passionate, poetic and wanting to attach to others Peisley pulls the viewer into personal dialogue. Through imagery and form her work cuts to a symbolic resonance that hits the back of the psyche to cause a sometimes awkward acknowledgement about oneself. Through a relentless process of stripping artifice from her own ordinary reality, she feels that she captures emotion that couldn’t be constellated in anyway but poetry or art. A woman wanting to make sense of the existential loneliness we find ourselves in, wanting to make sincere relational connections and speak compassionately from lived experience.
Featured Artwork
Psychic Salvage the deepest dive
Trusting the Unconscious My practice begins with trust in the unconscious as a source of imagery. I rarely begin knowing what an image is going to say. Instead, making becomes
Peisley Memoir
I attended the Graphics Narrative Course on line with Dr. Sarah Lightman in 2022 at The Royal Drawing School. I leant that zines have been used to tell one’s story
