Pockets, conceal or reveal?
Pockets, conceal or reveal? Historically pockets in garments was the only place especially woman could store or carry their most precious belongings. My most precious possessions are my adoptive mums diaries that she wrote when she and my dad were waiting to get approved for adoption. She wrote these the three year it took for me to arrive as a six months old baby and she kept writing until I was three.
The paintings, monoprints and etchings in this series are addressing feelings and thoughts around identity, motherhood and fertility explored though my personal les of being adopted, my mothers journals and being a mother myself channelled by abstraction.
These works asks the question: What does it mean to chose to be a mother. Or not?
Innermost
This series of paintings are looking inwards and responding to the feeling of the our collective need to speed up the process of making the right choices in regards to the climate and how we make a mark whilst we are here on this planet. With this shift the brush stokes and colours are lighter. I sense restlessness within young people, with many of my contemporaries questioning their purpose too, this urge for change within what our society deems valuable is also embedded in the energy of these paintings.