Original paintings, illustrations, collage and prints - Please contact me for more information about my work, collaborations or commissions.
Original paintings, illustrations, collage and prints - Please contact me for more information about my work, collaborations or commissions.
Making art helps me carve out time and create space within motherhood to show up for myself, as myself within a role that often leaves you with a feeling of lack of identity, hoping that my children will grow up with a strong sense of who their mother is and be inspired to continue to dance to the beat of their own inner drum as they go out into the world, knowing they have roots.
Learnt beliefs about what and who an artist is, conflicting with my perceptions about who I am, have often hindered my creative journey. I feel the purpose of my paintings is to support other women through their own self doubt around their identity.
My process starts with the need to create quiet, space and stillness, a blind sketch, a meditation, a moment to let it all flow on to the paper. I then change the scale of these thoughts and abstract forms, ‘pieces’, that I then recompose into new compositions. Much like sorting through emotions, thoughts, worries, hopes and desires, carving out a new mindset, vision and path.
My overall mission is to continue to tread my own path and to remind women that they are ‘Strong and Capable’ of dealing with whatever comes their way.
And above all that you will connect with a piece of my art that it will make you stop, reflect and focus on what is truly important to you and what brings you joy!
I’m an ARTIST/MOTHER it’s difficult to distinguish between the two during this chapter of my life as they are very much dependent on one another and coexist.
Becoming a mother and the desire to raise my son with a strong sense of self was the catalyst that sent me on my own journey of self discovery that brought me back to my brushes, almost 20 years after putting them down. The routine of family life, the constant starting and stopping, the pull for creative headspace, the need to breathe and be still, intwined with the strong emotions of wanting to show up for my family the best way I can, is what has slowly moulded my creative process and guided me towards an art practice and style that has led me back to feeling more like me than I ever have.
My hope is that my art will act like a proverbial lighthouse in the owner’s home during one of their own internal storms and remind them of how far they have come, how far they want to go and that they are exactly where they need to be in order to learn what they need to in order to get there.
The visual aspects of my paintings depict the inner and outer pulls of motherhood, the physical tasks, the mental load and most of all the emotions that we carry. Vibrant colours, pieces in forms that don’t always sit well together, but ultimately find their place and hierarchy in the composition, as I learn to sit with what is uncomfortable.
