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The pin-up, the advertisement, the domestic scene: Faun takes these images and asks what they are really saying, what they cost the women who inhabited them, and what it means to find them beautiful. The result is work that operates on multiple levels simultaneously — visually seductive and conceptually charged, the pleasure and the critique arriving together.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eHer titles carry the full weight of her practice: Good Girls Go To Heaven, Not Today Satan, Business As Usual, Love Wins (1969), Freedom Awaits, Stronger Everyday. Each one names something that her visual language then explores rather than illustrates — the gap between what is promised and what is delivered, between the image of freedom and its reality, between strength as aspiration and strength as daily practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eHer work has been featured in British Vogue and has attracted the attention of brands including Playboy and Missoma. She has exhibited globally over the past decade. Her recent move into oil painting — the medium of the old masters she references and the tradition she is in conversation with — marks the beginning of what she describes as her most personal and ambitious body of work to date.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\"\u003eAvailable through Creed Gallery, Ascot, for collectors across Berkshire, Surrey, and London.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"poppy-faun-good-girls-go-to-heaven-original-mixed-media-collage-painting-sunningdale","title":"Poppy Faun | Good Girls Go To Heaven","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePoppy Faun\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGood Girls Go To Heaven\u003cbr\u003eOriginal mixed media collage painting\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePoppy Faun works at the intersection of collage, painting, and feminist cultural commentary — a practice that takes the visual language of vintage magazines, advertising, and popular culture and transforms it into something that interrogates the images it appropriates. Good Girls Go To Heaven is among her most direct titles — a phrase with a long cultural history, from Mae West's famous inversion (\"good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere\") to the broader tradition of feminist art that has always been interested in what goodness costs women.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe collage painting technique allows Faun to layer meanings as well as materials — the cut and assembled imagery carrying the history of its sources even as it is transformed by its new context. 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In the context of Faun's feminist collage practice, Business As Usual becomes a critique of the structures that perpetuate themselves by insisting on their own ordinariness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe collage painting technique allows Faun to embed multiple visual histories within a single surface — the cut imagery carrying the context of its source while being transformed by its new relationships. The result is a work of considerable visual and intellectual density. 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Faun's retro-surrealist practice has always been interested in these kinds of gendered asymmetries, and Muse gives her the opportunity to investigate the concept directly: who is the muse here, and who is the artist?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe oil painting medium gives the work a richness and authority that her mixed media pieces, for all their textural complexity, cannot fully replicate. For collectors in Windsor, Berkshire, Surrey, and London seeking a Poppy Faun oil painting of genuine formal and intellectual substance, Muse is among her strongest works. 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In the context of her feminist practice, the phrase carries the weight of everything it takes to become stronger in a world designed to make that difficult: the daily resistance, the accumulated refusals, the small acts of self-preservation that compound over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe acrylic painting medium gives the work a brightness and clarity of colour that suits the affirmative mood of the title — paint that holds light rather than absorbing it, a surface of genuine visual energy. 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Faun's technique combines the visual language of mid-century illustration with a surrealist sensibility that finds the uncanny in the ordinary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe oil painting medium gives the work a material richness and luminosity that her mixed media pieces, for all their textural complexity, cannot fully replicate — the paint building the image with a depth and presence that suits the domestic intimacy of the subject. 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