Yana Stajno

My painting is a desire to respond to everything I see, hear and intuit. In my work there's a fluid, immediate response to what I see, which is then weighed in paint and form. The colours come from my original Southern African childhood. The subjects are local to where I live – Woodgreen, Alexandra Palace, Crouch End. My narrative forms, often humourous, are tools I’ve honed from writing. My figures are often caught in bafflement, my buildings are often wonky. My work is also influenced by working with people in health, crises, from a deep sense of our shared humanity caught somewhere between earth, sky and the absurd. I work in all media and on all structures, including walls and cars.