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American artist Aleah Chapin has had huge success early in her career. On graduating from the New York Academy of Art she was made a postgraduate felalow and went on to become one of the youngest artists to win the BP portrait award in 2012. Her latest exhibition entitled Maiden, Mother, Child & Crone explores each stage of a woman’s life and the relationships between generations, placing an emphasis on neo-paganism and a connectedness with nature. The largest work on display in this exhibition, entitled It Was the Sound of Their Feet, is a compositionally complex piece celebrating the mature body. The women in this painting play a game, forming a tunnel with their legs, through which each will crawl. Although advanced in years they play with the joyful abandon of youth. Age, Chapin shows us, is a state of mind. Maiden, Mother, Child & Crone, Flowers Gallery, Cork Street, London, 8 October – 8 November 2014. Interview by EMILY SPICER. Filmed by MARTIN KENNEDY
