AT first glance, the faces in Maya Davis-Stokes paintings appear a little unsettling.
There are eyes sliding off-centre and mouths pulled into ambiguous expressions.
But, look closer, and the distortions begin to feel deliberate.
Her new solo exhibition, Places, Faces and Spaces I Have Occupied , runs until March 30 at the Stryx Gallery in Birmingham.
It is, she said, an autobiographical story with distorted faces and memories .
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