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?