Artist a day!
JENNY SAVILLE
(b.1970)
Jennifer Anne Saville is a contemporary British artist. She is a member of the Young British Artists, and she is known for her large-scale painted portrayals of nude women.
Jenny Saville's artworks are the most recognizable works of contemporary art. Her work shows depictions of flesh, particularly the female form. In her 1992 painting Branded, she painted a distorted version of her own body.
Oil and mixed media on canvas, 209.5 x 179 cm, 1992
"I get to a point when I can’t look at any other contemporary art.. Because if I look at anything else, it gives me other options.. I think I can’t have any other options because this is it, this is where I’m at."
"I used only to work on one piece at a time, and that’s where the trauma came. Now I move between paintings. When I start getting a bit dogmatic, I switch."