Georgia Semple

Georgia Semple’s figurative surrealist work explores identity, perception, and connection, working primarily with oil and acrylic on canvas and often layering embroidery and textiles. Focusing on the misleading relationship between perception and ...

Georgia Semple’s figurative surrealist work explores identity, perception, and connection, working primarily with oil and acrylic on canvas and often layering embroidery and textiles. Focusing on the misleading relationship between perception and reality, her paintings are inspired by personal experiences often misunderstood and a sensitivity to the obscure. Semple’s work reflects the challenges of indiscriminate openness to stimuli, which can dilute personal convictions and distort identity. Each painting depicts scenes of tension or vulnerability, representing the chaos of mental processing. She uses distortion as a symbolic tool to illustrate the delusions formed by attachment to personal ideologies. Semple emphasizes the importance of self-contextualization in the midst of life's complexity through reflections, portraying the evolving nature of self-perception through strange and symbolic imagery.