Edwina Sandys’s (British, b. 1938) paintings and sculptures are both lighthearted and serious, and inspired by political issues as well as relationships between men and women. The first artist she ever observed at work was her grandfather, British Prime Minister and painter Sir Winston Churchill. One of her best-known works, Breakthrough (1989), is made with dismantled segments of the Berlin Wall. The a 32-foot-long sculpture is permanently installed at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri where Churchill gave his historic speech making reference to the Iron Curtain in 1946. Sandys’s trademark is an interplay of positive and negative space, as in works like Eve’s Apple (2018) where the missing bite and space between the fruit and the hand hold compositional suspense. Works on the theme of Eve’s apple and The Marriage Bed (2001), which is in the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, are part of her “The States of Woman” series.