"Laetitia Hallen's work explores the self and storytelling using mythology and the natural world.

In her work she uses photographs and imagination to design images with detail and story. Her mythological work is inspired by a lifelong interest fairy tales and mundane magic in a modern world. The intention is to make the viewer find the details which broaden the story of the image. Hallen only started exploring printmaking two years ago and has been enjoying experimenting with line weight and how small changes to the tone of the ink allows her to create compositional interest and focus the viewers eye.

Shown here for the first time is a series of three prints and a fourth individual print where she explores imagery inspired by Greek and western European mythology. The series of three with farm animals were created largely from photographs she found but replaced the faces with her own. This is common in her work as she explores self image and her role within her work as both artist and model. The fourth print is one of her earliest works produced during an art foundation in Sweden. She drew heavy inspiration from ancient Greek pots for the composition.

Hallen is a third year illustration student at Camberwell, University of the Arts London. She will be exhibiting a much larger selection of work at the end of year show in June 2024."