Brodskis paints exclusively in oil, on canvasses primed with skin glue – a technique developed and widely used during the Renaissance. Her characters are not lit by an external divine, however, but glow from within with human warmth and mesmerising intensity. People are Brodskis’s subject. People she knows. People she has seen on her journeys through Paris. Some she has dreamed and some she has imagined. Each time she has stopped and stared in wonder, feeling the same irresistible jolt as she recognises her next painting. Back in the studio, she works without photos or models, relying on nothing but the image seared on her mind’s eye. For Brodskis, the greatest advantage of working in oils is the gradual pace they demand.

Each character Brodskis creates is a fully realised individual and each is part of something bigger. Each brought into being by the act of looking, intuitively, conjured slowly in layer upon layer of paint and feeling. Gathered together in Berlin – alone, and in twos and threes – these characters make it possible for us to look through the artist’s eyes, to walk by her side on a journey through worlds both material and intangible.