Beginning & End by Elizabeth Hefty-Khoury

Elizabeth Hefty-Khoury is a London born writer and artist, and co-owner of Bloom Gallery in Valencia, Spain. Her work is a symbolic interpretation of the body. Issues such as grief, mental illness, violence, and inequality inform her use of the corporeal as a representation of the emotional being. As well as an MFA in Painting, Elizabeth holds a MA in Celtic Studies, and her interest in comparative mythology forms an important part of her research methodology. She believes that a painting holds multiple narratives, interpretable through different viewpoints and experience. Her figures are deliberately fragmented and abstracted, faceless and often with gender ambiguous.

​The prescience of grief and the anticipation of loss can be a terrible thing to bear. The knowing, yet not knowing. Death hanging over you like a cloud, sometimes clearing, but always there. Always present.
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Beginning and End is a narrative in trying to form an understanding of my husband’s impending death. It is an illustration of the process of struggling to reconcile with coming loneliness, grief and loss.