138 | Self Portrait in the Bath | Kate Hendry | $3000 | Oil Painting, Portrait, Figurative

This painted self portrait depicts me clothed in the bath. I am clothed to disrupt typical expectations around viewing a painting of a bathing woman and thus the consumption of beauty in art. The work is about seeing and being seen and the “gaze” in art. I look at me, whilst you (the viewer) look at me and I look back at you.