Pockets, conceal or reveal?

Pockets, conceal or reveal?

Pockets, conceal or reveal? Historically, pockets in garments were the only place especially women could store or carry their most precious belongings. My most treasured possessions are my adoptive mum’s diaries that she wrote when she and my dad were waiting to get approved for adoption.  She wrote these the three years it took me to arrive as a six-month-old baby and kept writing until I was three. 

The paintings, mono-prints and etchings in this series address feelings and thoughts around identity, motherhood and fertility explored through my personal lens of being adopted, my mother’s journals and being a mother myself channelled by abstraction. 

These works ask the question: What does it mean to choose to be a mother? Or not?