Catriona Platten

This monochrome painting depicts a figure seated before a window, suspended in a moment shaped by rain. Streaks of paint move vertically across the surface, drips down the interior walls insistently as they mark the exterior glass. The distinction between inside and outside begin to blur, the rain is not contained by the window but seeps into the room through paint itself. The painting asks whether the rain belongs to the world beyond the window or the inner state of the sitter. The figure does not respond directly to the viewer but remains absorbed within the shared condition, where emotion, environment and paint converge into a single, quiet tension.