Denise Liebermann is a figurative painter working primarily in oil. Her work explores moments of psychological tension and stillness, often depicting figures alone or in quiet relationship with animals. Rather than illustrating narrative, the paintings isolate fragments of experience — gestures, glances, physical proximity  - allowing meaning to remain unresolved.

Liebermann is interested in how identity and connection are negotiated in contemporary life, particularly the balance between intimacy and emotional distance. The recurring presence of dogs functions not as sentiment, but as a counterpoint to human self-consciousness: instinctive, grounded, and unguarded.

Her paintings are deliberately restrained in palette and composition, using scale, foreshortening, and spatial ambiguity to slow the viewer’s reading of the image. The work resists spectacle in favour of sustained looking, inviting the viewer into a space of introspection rather than conclusion.

Liebermann works in cohesive series, developing paintings over extended periods as a way of testing how subtle shifts in pose, proximity, and atmosphere alter meaning.