Jane Hughes 

Oil Triptych  170 x 56 cm.                               
Painted on a discarded wallpaper trestle table. The focus of the piece is on the place of artifice and the mask of make-up women adorn to make themselves acceptable and visible.  An exploration of how beauty products are adopted as tools of conformity in which ideals of female physical embodiment and concepts of ‘perfect’ femininity are actualised.