Fine Art Collections

Daughter of Woman

  • Daughter of Woman
  • Wife of Woman
  • Husband of Woman
  • Child of Woman

Maternity

Journey into the Surreal

The Albatross

“Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.“
– The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
 

The albatross project is a graphic representation of my struggle with my mental health. Sharing mental health battles with others is extremely difficult. there remains a huge stigma around mental health and we have yet to require the language to talk about it. I created the albatross project to show people how it felt to have mental health problems. Each image depicts how I felt at different moments in time. I hope that for some people it resonates and validates their own experiences. I hope that others might begin to understand.

  • The gold adhesive joins of the Japanese art of Kintsugi are visible on a young woman, as she sits crossed legged facing a wall.
  • A young woman sits in the floor holding her legs to her chest. She faces a wall. Her naked back is covered with angry, ugly mouths.
  • A woman sits bent forward on a wooden chair at a 45 degree angle to the camera. A gold hinge is embedded at her waist, allowing her to hang lifelessly forward.
  • A woman sits facing a wall, her naked back to the camera. Coarse, brown twine stitches run up her spine. At the top of her spine she holds the needle and thread in her right hand.
  • A woman sits crossed legged facing the camera. She has her hands on her ears and is screaming. Screws fly outwards from her body.
  • A young woman crouches with her hands protectively over her head and back. Red, paper planes fire down on her.
  • A woman crouches on the ground, hands protecting her head In front of her is an old hurricane lamp. the lamp provides the only glimmer of light. She is surrounded by darkness.
  • A woman sits on the floor, her naked back to the camera, her head bowed towards the floor. Six hands are on her back. Threee on the left side and three hands on the right side.
  • A woman sits on the floor holding her knees to her chest. She faces a wall, her naked back towards the camera. The skin on her back is cracked and peeled like old paintwork.
  • Square frame of woman sat inside a box, crammed in, her hands around her head and her legs crossed.
  • Woman sits on floor with her back facing. there are two larges holes in her back.

SKIN

This collection is my response to an exhibition at the Horsebridge Arts Centre, entitled ‘Skin’. This exhibition was an open call for email artists of all mediums.

Skin is: closeness; intimacy; those we love.

Memory

An open call for an exhibition at Horsebridge Arts Centre, (Whitstable, Kent) for artworks on the them of ‘memory’. This was a very different style of image and required learning much more a out Photoshop. It took six months from concept to completion. Unfortunately the file I sent to the exhibition was corrupted and I missed the deadline. However, all the learning experiences were invaluable.

The Memorium

Birth and reclamation

“Our connections with the earth and soil are at a base level, raw and bare. The symbiosis of the being and the provider forming the cycle of life.” My first try at an open call for the exhibition ‘Soil’ at the Horsebridge Arts Centre, (Whitstable, Kent). This was my first conceptual piece for an outside brief. My first steep learning curve about printing and framing also.

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