Ley works with traditional intaglio techniques with drawing at the very heart of her practice. Her work is closely observed, exploring the offbeat and unobvious. She is particularly interested in light and the way it can transform an atmosphere, embrace and enhance a subject, or fleetingly bestow a place, an object or a person with an intriguing nobility.
Her aim is to encourage the viewer to observe the world more carefully and to discover beauty in unusual places, particularly within the everyday and commonplace. In these etchings, her subjects inhabit their varied surroundings, absorbing the light and reflecting back a narrative in which the observer is free to choose the outcome.
Ley works with traditional intaglio techniques with drawing at the very heart of her practice. Her work is closely observed, exploring the offbeat and unobvious. She is particularly interested in light and the way it can transform an atmosphere, embrace and enhance a subject, or fleetingly bestow a place, an object or a person with an intriguing nobility.
Her aim is to encourage the viewer to observe the world more carefully and to discover beauty in unusual places, particularly within the everyday and commonplace. In these etchings, her subjects inhabit their varied surroundings, absorbing the light and reflecting back a narrative in which the observer is free to choose the outcome.
