"I work in the traditional Medieval medium of Egg Tempera to create modern day icon paintings exploring themes of self and motherhood.

Working with intricate and multi-layered techniques and media, I explore the self as characters through realistic portraiture, and found natural objects, such as taxidermy and botanical items.

These objects are used as metaphors for the self, evoking a fusion of icon painting and memento mori. By using storytelling , memory and referencing historical and Medieval religious themes, I am concerned with ideas of motherhood, fertility, loss, attachment and healing.



This painting tells the first chapter of a beautiful love story of a mother and her child - their lives inextricably entwined, their direction not yet diverged. Its full of wonder and hope. Our history is being written. Our future is held in the tip of a paintbrush.

There is much symbolism in this piece - from the butterflies & moths - beautiful, fragile but ephemeral, to the snail crawling slowly - the juxtaposition of transient and enduring.

The hair - the umbilicus binding us together - and tattoos - made from both of our original drawings, symbolise our memories, moments, marks made on our life.

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