CHRIS O'LEARY

My beauty illustrative style has been something I’ve been developing since childhood.  In a way I see each piece I create as the perfect alter ego of myself, paying homage to my own femininity through the strong influences of women I have always respected and admired.  Biologically being a gay man I have been making a statement through these female faces that likes to test my audience about their perspective of femininity.  I never was attracted the soft demure female type I loved the woman that could still be feminine even an exaggerated form of it but showing it as a threat.  Its subtle, psychological.  My artwork is my own personal form of feminism.  My feminism.