Finest Devotion
Art

Bodies of work

A selection of the work. What follows is a small part of it, chosen rather than recent — new images go up through the week on Instagram, and everything we have made is in the vault.

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An oil painting in an ornate gilt frame hung on a dark red wall: two women kissing, one in a white shirt, the other in a red leather collar.
Collared

Portraits built around the studio’s central object. A collar is not put on a woman here. It is asked for, and the asking is the subject.

A young woman in a black top and a wide leather collar, looking up, against a pale ground. A woman in a white lace blouse with a leather collar and strap across the chest. Two women close together, the one in front in black with a leather lead running from her collar. A woman in warm gold light wearing a black lace bodice, straps, and a buckled collar.

Everyone is held by something. Some women prefer cold metal.

The Three Brides

White, lace, candlelight, and a ceremony none of them intends to leave for. Women dressed for an audience that turns out to be each other.

Three women in white dresses seated together among candles. Three women in white corsets, two turned into a kiss. Two brides standing over a third who kneels before an altar. Three women in white against a dark ground, the one at the center with her hair wrapped in a towel.

They were dressed to be given away. They had their own ideas about to whom.

Fantasies of the East

A woman travels east and finds the arrangements already in place: courtyards, kimono, green bathwater, and rules nobody troubles to explain to her.

A woman reclining in a warm interior among brass vessels and drapery. A woman in a red kimono kneeling while two others stand over her. Two women waist-deep in the green water of a lantern-lit bathhouse. A woman in a teal and gold costume with a heavy gold collar.

She went to see the world. The world had arrangements already in place for women who arrive alone.

Total Submission

Candlelight and iron, at the far end of the road. The deciding has stopped, and what is left is the being held.

A woman in a dark gown holding another across her lap by candlelight. A woman kneeling in black, chained at the wrists and ankles. A woman kneeling in white with her head tipped back and her hands bound. Two women by candlelight, one holding the other's face and feeding her.

The bravest thing she ever did was stop being brave.

The Sketchbook

The same studio in ink and flat color. Bars, lanterns and back rooms, drawn fast rather than painted slow.

A flat blue and pink print of women drinking together in a bar. A red and black print of two women kissing on a bar stool. A red ink drawing of a woman standing beneath paper lanterns. A violet print of a woman on her hands and knees.

Three colours and a hard line. Some nights that is the whole of it.

The daily grid

New work appears on Instagram first, through the week, in the most restrained version it comes in. It is the easiest way to keep up, and it costs nothing.

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Every series, complete

What runs above is four images from each. In the vault the series are complete and unfiltered, at the size they were made and yours to download — along with the studies, the variations, and everything we have never posted.

The Vault