Frances Stanfield's work consists of abstracted figures exploring ideas around sexuality, gender and power-play. She begins by drawing from observation or images on her phone ceaselessly reshaping and repeating motifs and figures. She works back and forth between drawing, printmaking and painting seeking to retain a certain energy in the colour and mark making. Printmaking, particularly monotype, feeds her momentum between drawing and painting - its serendipitous and technical nature help guide the work between chance and control leading to complex compositions of layered texture, planes and line.

Frances Stanfield is an artist working and living in South East London where she co-founded the London Drawing Group. When she's not at her studio in Woolwich, Frances can be found teaching drawing and printmaking classes with LDG. She has exhibited at WCPF in 2019 and 2020 and is the author of 'The Drawing Ideas Book' and 'The Printmaking Ideas Book', both published in 2019.