Size: 172.7 x 188 cm

Medium - Oil on Canvas

Origin: USA

Represented by - Victoria Miro, London.

Yellow Fall (2007), celebrates the dynamic feeling that comes with the changes of Fall. Robert R.Shane writes "employing a mix of narration, symbolism and mystery, her paintings explore what is known about nature and what lurks beyond our perception". He quotes the artist directly: "The unknown comes from the painting process, putting brush to canvas."

Inka Essenhigh was born in 1969. She currently lives and works in New York. Throughout her career, she has had solo exhibitions as various galleries all over the world. Inka Essenhigh was one of the first generation American Artists to return to figuration. In the late 1990s. Her work attracted the attention of a generation of young painters in New York. Her early work was someone characterized at "Pop Surrealism" for its strangely diminished cartoon form and flat, simple colors.

Inka Essenhigh's paintings draw on an astute awareness of contemporary culture and her immediate environment. They are infused with a dreamlike, surreal sensibility - often directly related to a particular perception or the atmosphere of an encounter, individual or scene. Everyday events such as a picnic in the park, supermarket shopping or drinking at an inner-city bar are transformed into grand, sometimes humorous epic scenes where the artist's cartoon-like figures fuse together with the trails and currents of energy that animate the canvas.

According to Inka "My love of painting precedes becoming an artist. I liked to paint and make images as a kid, and I always wanted to come to New York City to be an artist. I enjoyed working in other mediums, such as ceramics, but only as a relief from the terror of making a painting. I paint in oil because it has the biggest variety and you can do whatever you want with it. I always associate it with deeper emotions."

Manesha Peiris (2021)