Vivien draws and paint in charcoal, chalk, pastel, ink and oil, on paper or on canvas. She takes inspiration from a range of sources, including art history, music, myths and poems. As she is also a translator and musician, she is fascinated by the relationship between ideas, words, pictures and rhythms.

 

The size of her works varies from small pieces on wooden panels to larger canvases, and from black-and-white graphic work to colourful paintings in primary colours. Deeply influenced by surrealist methods and process-driven approaches, she sees every image, large or small, as an adventure in creation and destruction, temporality and change.