Hovey Eyres is a Canadian figurative painter and performance artist whose work translates lived emotional experience into visual form.

Working across painting, movement and voice, Eyres treats the body as both subject and instrument.

Her work begins from the premise that emotion is first felt physically, not intellectually. Rather than telling stories, her paintings aim to create a direct, visceral response in the viewer. The figure provides a structure capable of carrying tension, vulnerability, and power without relying on narrative.

After completing her Fine Arts degree at the University of Victoria (2016), Eyres moved away from photorealistic drawing toward a more embodied process. Through movement, meditation, voice work, and rapid sketching, she began documenting emotional states the moment they occurred. These fragments form the bones of each project, allowing the final painting to emerge as a record of lived experience rather than a pre-planned image.

Texture, gesture, and visible human touch are central to her work. In contrast to increasingly polished digital imagery, Eyres foregrounds the physical trace of the body and the act of making itself. Each painting holds the residue of its process.

Her work appeals to collectors interested in emotionally charged figurative art, process-based practices, and mark-making influenced by calligraphy and contemporary performance.

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