Ena Swansea, Urban Romantics
“...Swansea’s paintings intricately twist and turn the paradoxical nature between location and dislocation, realism and dream, abstraction and representation. Her largely printed canvases tell a story of urban mastery, ‘slow painting’ and the humble boundaries of romantic mirages that investigate multitudinous ways to capture moments in time as they move swiftly into past time, with a hint of film-like qualities.”
BABii - Symmetrical absolutes
“...After her parents split up when she was young, she went to live with her dad in Canada for a fresh start, and shortly after, when she was 16 in Brighton, she began her studies at the British Institute of Modern Music and got a degree in Music and Visual Art. Warne has mastered the art of bringing raw concepts into her creations. She feels an invisible fire within that stokes her creative spirit through which her musical accordance skillfully places the listener in a magical daze of luminescent animations and experimental harmonies…”