Sophie Vallance Cantor uses painting as an escape from her experiences of autism, creating artworks that blend reality and fantasy. Her work features transformed animals and explores complex themes like immigration, fear, and belonging through vivid colors and emotional expressions. Inspired by the aesthetics of 1980s and 1990s American cinema, Cantor invites viewers to interpret her art while simultaneously reflecting on her own feelings of isolation and the search for identity. The act of painting becomes a necessary exploration of existence and personal truth for her.
Ultimately, the act of making paintings serves a purpose for me. I am looking for myself in my work and answers to likely unanswerable questions about what it is to be alive, belonging, fear, loneliness and love.
The line between reality and imagination are blurred as well, with domestic cats transforming into tigers and leopards, and themes like immigration and isolation expressed through characters, colours, and embraces that appear amplified without being idealistic.
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