Molly English
Artist Bio:
Molly English is an abstract painter currently living and working in North Carolina. She studied Art and Psychology at Queens University of Charlotte- a pairing that continues to shape her thoughtful and expressive practice.
Her paintings serve as visual meditations on emotion, memory, and the shifting terrain of the self. Muted neutral palettes, inspired by nature, create a sense of quiet expansiveness. The gestural marks-scrapes, scratched lines, and subtle shifts of tone- suggest both the slow erosion of time and the immediacy of a captured moment.
Her work doesn’t seek to explain-it offers space.
A space for wandering, for feeling, for slow looking. Through her visual language, Molly gently guides the viewer toward a more introspective, contemplative experience-one that unfolds quietly, like a thought coming into focus.
Artist Statement:
I return to the horizon obsessively – both in life and in paint – compelled to explore its quiet duality and meditative presence.
Inspiration is gathered from fragmented memories of long drives through transient landscapes, where the sensory hum of the road softens the architecture of tangled thought. In that space, the horizon travels with me, always just ahead and in the periphery. It becomes a companion in reflection, a place where freedom and intimacy converge.
I work primarily in acrylic and watercolor – mediums that resist control, that demand urgency and instinctual movement, honesty, and surrender. Layer by layer a coded language of color and texture is built up and broken down, not to depict a scene, but to reveal a mood. Each piece is a kind of excavation of a subconscious terrain.
Though the pieces in this series are landscapes, they are composed of fields of memory, emotional topography, and personal metaphors, not just earth and sky.
Emotions, like clouds, drift through us with the pace of our breath and a shape that shifts with the wind and rain.
Thoughts, like terrain, hold the impressions of our experiences – at times cracked, dry, and carved by hardship, and at others, soft, fertile, and open to growth.
It’s this duality that fascinates me – the tension between tactile and intangible, between logic and emotion, instinct and reason, presence and projection. My work explores its rhythm, not to resolve it, but to honor the complexity we each carry within. The horizon remains a quiet presence throughout it all: elusive, steady, and always inviting another step forward.