Helmeted Honeys: What’s your favorite scary movie?

Artist Notes

This painting takes one of the most iconic masks in horror and places it in a setting that feels more playful, sensual, and a little bit dangerous. What interests me here is that collision between the language of fear and the language of attraction — the scream of the mask against the softness of skin, the tension between threat and pose, violence and flirtation.

Like the other works in this series, it’s about what happens when a familiar symbol is removed from its usual role and turned into something more intimate, cheeky, and strangely human.

Medium

Oil on panel
F6 Size (41 cm x 31.8 cm)
April 2026

Series

This work is part of Helmeted Honeys, an ongoing series exploring the overlap between geek culture, sensuality, anonymity, and style. Each painting pairs an iconic helmet or mask with a body-forward, playful composition, leaning into the tension between armour and skin, power and vulnerability, pop culture and pin-up.

The series is interested in contrast: hard and soft, hidden and revealed, familiar and transformed.