Art Auction - Arms Around the Child

Poppy Lennox is a London based artist who creates unique works on paper and wood incorporating gold leaf, paint and embroidery. 

Poppy plays with the contrast between the delicacy of woven thread through its hard wooden ‘canvas’ with the vivid, bold and exotic fauna that predominate her works. Vibrant colours permeate her abstract figures, creating a fantastical quality that oscillates between the real and imaginary.

As if following traditional forms of embroidery, Poppy is drawn to symmetry and repetition. The titles of her works help the viewer understand the importance of this meditative dimension in her working process: they allude to a kind of pursuit of ascension, self-liberation or, perhaps, refuge. In this sense, Poppy embraces spirituality in her work and follows a long tradition of artists who have used their art as an aid to look for transcendence and subject matters that go beyond a physical level.

Her abstract winged creatures, an often-seen symbol, offer a source of ambiguity and tension. Although signifying liberation and flight, in this space they may be viewed as captured static patterns forever tied to their surface.

Poppy has exhibited in a number of group exhibitions and art fairs and currently has work in The Savoy and Home House, London. Her work is widely collected both in the UK and abroad.