Tracie Peisley

Peisley’s work is intense, highly charged with an emotional content that relates to the everyday drama of existing.

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A Painter’s Porcelain

Cosmic Lover

Ceramic Sculptures

The Myth Plates

Broken Plates Re-assembled

Acts of Devotion

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Peisley Ceramics Catalogue 2021

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Belief is Sacred

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Feb 27

Adding oil pastel onto acrylic
18 x 20 cm
Abstract Girl
#abstractgirl #colourpop

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Feb 27

Adding oil pastel to acrylic
About 17 x 18 cm unframed
Abstract girl
#abstractgirl #colourpop #nofilters

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Feb 27

Adding oil pastel to the acrylic
Abstract Girl
17 x 18 cm unframed
#abstractgirl

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Feb 27

A series of abstract girls, acrylic on paper, signed, framed 20 x 20 cm. These original works are £200 plus P&P. DM to reserve
#abstractgirl #portrait #colourpop

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Feb 25

Should I abandon the text...these women seem to be surfacing into Manet's garden. I like them these three very different muses, four if I keep the big one.

#wip #oiloncanvas #oilpainting #muses #womensart #dreamwhatdream

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Feb 25

Always saw myself as roaming
Oil on canvas
#renegade #outsider #lonewolf #gonegirl #abstractgirl #selfportrait l @delphiangallery #delphianopencall

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Feb 24

This portrait is unnerving me, it's very much like a mix of the hostile glare of my mother as a young women unable to cope with two toddlers, isolated and ill equip and a horrible abstract painting we had hanging over the gas fire in the house where I grew up. Painted on a day when I myself feel I cannot parent well. And I have ran out of white. And I want to run out of the house and not come back.
#portrait #todayisrubbish

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Feb 23

Ain't no sunshine when she's gone...
Oil on canvas
#selfportrait #youremyfavourite #aintnosunshine #delphinianopencall @delphiangallery

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Feb 23

'I'm sorry but you're not my dream girl' is getting further work. Im starting to love it...feeling like I'm pulling membranes from all corners of my being together and knitting them into something that has weight.

Listening to Cecily Brown and Gabor Mate And Adyashanti...what a line up. The way that Cecily takes the figurative through a painterly dissolution and Gabor attempts to split the case of the fantasy of the divine experience with Adyashanti is good soul food.

All I know is what ever we think we know, what we end up knowing is Jack Shit. And these moments are the divine ones.

When we know we are nothing and know nothing.

#iknownothing #oiloncanvas #thedreamisjustadream #wip #detail #delphianopencall @delphiangallery

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Feb 23

Random notes...Wow the course last night on women artists and their alter egos was just amazing. Led to very strange dreaming. So much to think about ...

Lena Chen, 'Becoming someone I was not I became dangerously close to becoming nothing.'

Thank you for sharing your experiences and Artists. So powerful...sending you love and resilience as you chart your future .

#alterego @elleperil @londondrawinggroup

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Feb 22

L O V E
Oil on canvas
#delphianopencall @delphiangallery #wip #selfportrait

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Feb 22

Detail
Oil on canvas
#wip

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Feb 22

Looks a bit like you
Oil on canvas
20 × 30cm
#portrait #justlooking #delphianopencall @delphiangallery

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Feb 21

It's said that transformatiinal healing work can't be made outside of our windows of tolerance. That to examine ourselves at depth we need safety. That's not a superficial safety but a deep sense of feeling held and accepted. So it seems to me most of us hedge around our windows of tolerence and our depths, for fear of being overwhelmed. Re-experiencing that which was suppressed, when our psyche took the intelligent decision to bury it so we could survive, is just too risky.
Ofcourse the unexplored self keeps trying to find a way to be acknowledged and at unguarded moments can burst through. Usually the wrong person in a less than ideal situation experiences a massive dose of unprocessed seldom experienced bit of us that even we look at with astonishment. ' thats not like me', ' i dont know what came over me', ' that was totally out of character'.
I think for women in particular its hard firstly to feel safe and secondly hard to move out from our edges of what feels tolerable.
I'm exploring this idea of the authentic self, most of the time I feel mad and fall or fail describing myself as such. I seem to lack the ferocity it takes to stand and exist unabashed and unapologetically as my full and flagrant self and this annoys me. It annoys me that I retreat to self pathologising, to infantile deploring, to a half way house way of existing that then leads to depression because I can't do it.
BUT when I am supported, as I was earlier this week and yesterday by one person and today another and when I face the deep legacies of humilation I frequently re experience...I wake with a new energy and a rage.
It's this rage that takes me to try some way that I havent tried before , to open what feels siezed shut to have an experience that puts me in a new relationship to myself and the world.
So today I am channelling the wisdom and vulnerability shared with me by friends and the painters I am excited about.
I'm painting in the sunshine with a broom.
#wip #oilpainting #delphianopencall
@delphiangallery #womenartist
(learning with and from @matthewlicata )

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Feb 20

Just like a royal portrait. I'm going to leave these guys in the studio to get to know each other.

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Feb 20

I eventually fired him. I've felt no directive from my psyche to attend to him. Somethings are simply lost.
The little pieces are accessories for the wolf women.
I forget how beautiful plain fired porcelain is.

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Feb 19

Meanwhile back at Pipkins !!! Do you remember that? ...I attempted to make my wolf look more wolf like. I even did some proper wolf research but it still looks immature some how, his porcelain teeth are baking in the kiln right now...maybe that will give him more wolf presence.
As we invest in the things we make, they come alive to us and that's amazing.
#morewolfthanwoman #womanandwolf #wolfwoman

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Feb 19

Started a large self portrait today while listening to Phillipa Perry on how to be a better parent in preparation for next weeks home schooling, while trying to make use of this time to paint. Portrait is next to the cf bottle , oil paint got trodden into the bath and carpet. Its not the insta dream of a mature women artist I want to show the world . The self portrait mocks me..' so you think you are some kind of contemporary warrior..' I started this image with the shapes of a Picasso soft voluptuous nude in my head. My sharp eye mocks me again, 'you're 55'. I hadn't even wanted to make a self portrait, thats what young artists do full of questions about who they are going to be, it was the digital drawing on the selfie that inspired me, the shape of the hair bringing to mind what's that crazy women painter called that makes such a mess...her with her incredible ability to make shorthand oil paintings of the everyday. (Rose Wylie)
Phillipa says if I have a negative attitude towards myself my daughter will inheret this critical voice. And if I feel consumed with shame she will pick this up also. I feel myself growing increasingly uncomfortable. I know to push on I need a bit if rage, otherwise I will give up.Having spent most my life being an artist I have to keep going. The only real truth is the truth i'm trying to tell right now.
#asitis @phillipaperry #writewomenin #selfportrait #wip #artistmother #fuckit

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Feb 18

I don't know how else to love you
#digitaldrawing #idontknow

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Feb 18

2017 Paris with @nathaliebanaigs one of my best trips ever...so much fun...sigh
#paris #mask

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