Esugen’s series oil on canvas murals are painted from memory and impulse exploring sexuality, love, pain and trauma as a gateway to deeper truths about existential struggles, moral ambiguities, and the complexities of the human psyche through narrative story. Baimiao (白描) has been an important underlying philosophy as she imagines to wield the brush as if it is water. With the sensitivity and eloquence of line, she embraces qing (清) – like water that flows still but can erupt when uncontained. This is the movement which tracks her paintings. Through colour fields split by lines and shapes to construct and explore her own internal chambers of femininity and peace.
Ruskin Year 1 Show
2025 | Red Lotus Series | ~170cm x ~90cm
These existential paintings explore an inner self journey, navigating rape, violence, peace, pregnancy, maternity, hope and love. These were done within a week from raw imagination as Esugen’s craft is heavily based on prior knowledge towards the traditional arts.
Personal Work
2025 | Moon, Sun, Water | 150cm x 55cm
The central figure braids her hair in the iconic Mongolic hair style many women use as a symbol of work ethic and beauty. This imaginative painting explores the psyche, soul, femininity, mortality and Mongolianess.
Personal Work
2026 | Woman in the Sky | 120cm x 60cm
Woman in the Sky explores sapphic desires, becoming, eco-feminism, trauma, bleeding, Mongolian-ess and self-portraiture under the guise of pure feminine entities and the self-recreational force of self-discovery.
Personal Work
2025 | Untitled | 120cm x 120cm
Imaginative inner-landscape potrays a self-potrait, exploring the somatic relationship of the body to the psyche – exploring pain, self-hood, femininity and the psyche.
Esugen Enkhsuren 