Saw the film #WickedLittleLetters & it called to mind my painting from a few years ago Laughing While Addressing 2016 Oil on Linen 50 x 50 cm Private Collection The poison pen or ransom reference was emblematic, it's so potent a signifier of transgression.

To suggest that a woman may so gleefully disturb, confuse or extort is unsettling & I'm interested in this territory Despite poison pen writing being more associated with women, apparently there isn't substantial evidence that women are more likely to write them than men