In Suspended Animation - The artwork of Chloe Early

Born in 1980, Chloe graduated from NCAD Dublin in 2003 and moved to London a year later, where she now lives and practices her painting. Chloe’s current works are paintings on aluminum, linen, and perspex. The artist paints figures suspended within colorful abstracted backgrounds surrounded by flowers, jets, and buildings.

The bronzed and beautiful figures bring a sense of escapism, glamour, and kitsch into the paintings and stand out in contrast when seen against their architectural backgrounds. “I employ both representational and abstraction in my work as a way of reflecting what comes before me,” the young artist tells us.

Chloe aims to layer motifs and meanings, and uses imagery from a range of sources such as photographs, magazines, books, and the internet. The artist has exhibited internationally at galleries in New York, Los Angeles, and Dublin. Her new series “Birdsong and Machine Sounds” takes inspiration from John Milton’s Paradise Lost and showcases a contemporary narrative about Adam and Eve caught between the splendor of nature and the fallout of post industrialization. A collection of Chloe’s striking artwork, including some of her latest paintings can be seen below.