– Winner of the painting category of Welsh Artist of the Year 2009
Corrie’s work is a reflection of personal experience, a fascination with painting the figure and a strong leaning towards surrealism and symbolism which allow her to build a cryptic narrative around her subject. Inspiration comes from literature, dreams, people and the world around her.
Corrie creates compositions that are rooted in reality but then goes on to alter that reality through surreal manipulation of the figure, its landscape and perspective. She paints intimate portrayals, often in confined claustrophobic compositions, or figures dominating the landscape of the canvas. Her work is often concerned with ideas of transition, metamorphosis or hybrids which manifest themselves in representational figurative work through to more heavily stylised forms.
By this distortion of figure and perspective she acknowledges the canvas as a portal to another world where there is freedom to create or manipulate anything. Although the work is often intense and introspective it still challenges the viewer to explore and recognise feelings of common experience. Her paintings invite the viewer to engage with his or her own storytelling abilities by deciphering an underlying meaning through symbolic clues in the picture’s narrative.
