[PHOTOS] Woman Creates Beautiful Paintings Using Her Menstrual Blood

A woman has created beautiful paintings – using her menstrual blood – in the tradition of ancient female cave painters.


Jess Cummin, 20, a painting and print making student at the prestigious Glasgow School of Art and Design – which includes Charles Rennie Macintosh among its alumni – started using her period blood in October 2015.

Now she has created six paintings, featuring women meditating and she even hangs one in her home.

Jess hopes to continue to make them and sell them one day.

'I'd be surprised if anyone wanted to buy one, but flattered. 'I think people think it's gross but it's not.'

Jess, from Golders Green, north London, takes between five and 25 minutes to create each picture, and says it is a slow creative process, given that she can only paint with her blood when her period comes each month.

She paints it by collecting her menstrual blood on a brush or using tampons.

She then waits for the canvas or paper to dry, which takes a few minutes.

Overnight the colour of the blood changes from a bright red to a darker red-brown tone as the blood dries.

'Other people use oils or charcoal – this is no different,' she claimed, explaining how in the future she intended to mix her blood with ink, to intensify the texture.

Jess displays her finished artwork on social media but she has encountered heavy criticism from strangers, but even some friends.

'They've been said they feel uncomfortable and been disturbed by it,' she said.

'My pictures aren't disgusting and neither is painting with the blood, if you're hygienic and wash your hands.

'Some people think the paintings will stink, but painting with blood doesn't smell, nor does my artwork.

'I think all women should try painting with their blood. It's cathartic.'

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Source: Daily Mail Uk