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In Black Heart, Mary turns toward a more insurgent visual language: a dense, agitated lattice of black mark-making thrashes across the surface, as if the painting were recording an inner argument in real time. Through this charged thicket, passages of incandescent colour: vermilion, turquoise, fuchsia & chartreuse all fight their way forward, refusing to be eclipsed.
A vertical gold column anchors the composition, its stacked squares reading like a ceremonial register or a line of ancient glyphs. This luminous spine cuts through the turbulence, setting up a tension between the sacred and the unruly, between order and emotional fracture.
The “black heart” of the title isn’t a symbol of darkness so much as a core of lived complexity: the knot of grief, joy, memory, and resilience that refuses simplification. The work pulses with contradiction, ferocity and playfulness, chaos and structure - and in doing so, reveals a heart that is very much alive.
Mary Collis is a Kenyan artist known for her fearless use of colour and her energetic, gestural approach to painting. Working between landscape, abstraction and memory, she builds layers that feel both atmospheric and immediate. Her work reflects decades of experimentation, an instinctive sense of composition, and a deep connection to place.
