Xanthe Burdett (born 1995, Devon) is an oil painter whose work layers figures and overlapping organic forms. Occasionally lifting figures straight out of historical works, the finely rendered paintings combine classical subjects with vivid colour and layers of natural forms, existing in conversation with those Old Masters who painted the female nude. Layers of transparent paint build a network of tangled plants and figures emerge from the thicket to join a long line of nude depictions of the feminine body in art. Modern interpretations of classical subjects, they occupy an uneasy space - beyond titillation but vulnerable in their nakedness. They are wary of our gaze.