Disappearing Women: Artist paints portraits of all women killed by men in Britain in 2020

"It made me curious about all these other women and why we didn't know them. I wanted to create a memorial to them. I paint them and film myself painting them, then I pause and reverse the image so you see them disappearing.

"I had lots of comments from people calling them 'unpaintings', but I'm calling them 'Disappearing Women'. They are symbolic of what has happened to these women."Henny has completed 19 paintings so far and has another 99 to go before her work will be finished. One of those she has already painted is 40-year-old Kelly Fitzgibbons who was shot dead at her home in West Sussex last March by her partner, who also murdered their daughters Ava, who was four, and Lexi, who was two. He then turned the gun on himself."This campaign is so important purely because it has raised our awareness," Kelly's best friend Sue Redman told Sky News at the memorial bench in her name in the West Sussex village of Bosham.

"We had absolutely no idea of the number of women, I wouldn't have even thought that there were that many murders in the UK in a year, let alone women murdered at the hands of men. "It's truly shocking and it's very, very right what Jess Phillips has done. Kelly was an amazing girl, so popular and so loved. She was such a fantastic mother, she put the rest of us to shame. We first met at the village youth club when we were 13 and I was lucky enough to be her best friend."I’m painting the 118 women killed by men last year named by

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