Estetica Magazine UK (4/2021)

Creature
comforts!
Cats, dogs, ducks, cows and so on and so forth:
Lucia Heffernan’s animals are irresistible, with their polite
expressions and extreme attention to their coiffures!
Daniela Giambrone
Qui in alto la When in your wildest dreams could you ever imagine a cow in curlers and apron baking a cake? Or a
locandina della duck sitting judiciously at the bench - fully wigged up and delivering who knows what kind of rough
mostra. A fianco l'olio
su tela di iuta di justice? Bringing humanity to life through the medium of animals is the fun and insprational concept
Simone Fugazzotto
behind the work of Lucia Heffernan, an American artist, graphic designer and painter. She shows the
intitolato Alphabet.
technical skill of a portraitist combined with a playfully sharp vein that's typical of Pop Art.
“In my paintings, I strive to give a voice and personality to animals which are portrayed in human
situations. The encounter between these two elements creates a fun, slightly zany world, where we can
trace episodes of everyday life, while more easily recognising real emotions." Hair certainly plays an
important role in bringing these characters closer to us, albeit from the perspective of superficial irony.
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