"Peyton's portraits capture the fragile beauty of her generation, the paleness of skin against oil-black thickets of hair or cherry stained lips, the melancholy insouciance and vulnerabilty of singers like Jarvis Cocker and Pete Doherty. A sadness infuses her canvases...Her works are painted in thin oil washes on gesso, the white ground giving the faces a ghostly luminosity. Her subjects are never active, but sit or lie, exhausted by their own slacker mentality..." Mullins, Charlotte, 'Painting People', Thames and Hudson, London, 2006
Mullins brushwork is very appealing to me at the moment, I would like to experiment with a more free technique, thinner paint and altogether quicker as I would like to do a series of quick paintings to get the ball rolling this semester. She takes her inspiration from the popular culture of a very specific timeframe - around the 1990s, in this way her paintings are quite historical, and she achieved this while also maintaining an aesthetically pleasing style of painting.
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