Sylvia Snowden @ The Hepworth, Wakefield

Sylvia Snowden: Painting Humanity, presents a selection of work from a career that spans six decades, the exhibition includes large early paintings through to more recent works.

Snowden works with oil paint and pastels as well as acrylic and collage to create her expressionist, distorted, monumental figures, capturing the psychological essence of her subjects – their triumphs, torments, joys and pains – in thick impasto, the technique where paint is laid on an area of the surface thickly.