A painter since childhood, Kira Sømerset’s practice has evolved into an intense, almost obsessive exploration of surface, texture, and time. From afar, her paintings feel fluid and harmonious; up close, they fracture into intricate networks of brushstrokes, splatters, and sewn threads each mark part of a shifting, unresolved narrative.

Her work navigates the space between chaos and control, spontaneity and precision. It’s in this tension that femininity emerges not as a fixed aesthetic, but as a language of care, complexity, and contradiction. Sewing, in particular, becomes a radical act: a method of repair, repetition, and resistance. It binds the work physically, but also symbolically echoing the invisible labor historically tied to the feminine.

Paintings unfold slowly, sometimes over many months. Layers are built, erased, and rebuilt, giving each surface the sense of something lived-in and enduring. The work shifts with light and movement, revealing different moods and structures over time, like skin that holds memory.

This ritualistic approach honors process over perfection. Each piece is singular, impossible to reproduce. To recreate even one would take a lifetime.