This collection was inspired very much by being in quarantine. After knowing that we are all inside, some alone, some with your significant other, and others with family. As I was thinking and as I was visualizing this collection, I knew I wanted each painting to depict a woman on or in her bed. How many times in life have we had these moments. How many times have we sat on the end of the bed after a long day or after someone has caused us pain? That is what this collection is about. Those moments of being introspective on our lives. 

Chamber Introspective I

Inward Exposure is a collection about trying to figure out who you are. Yes, the background is bright but the bodies are just wisps of paint. They are not solid and secure in who they are. You can feel the sadness and the sense of loss in their body language being closed off, falling and unsure about life. It’s a powerful statement of where I was mentally and emotionally. How I felt stuck trying to define myself on my journey. 

Inward Exposure - Who Am I

Inward Exposure - Pondering the Night Sky

Inward Exposure - Looking Back

Inward Exposure - Longing for a Dream

Inward Exposure - Loathing Tomorrow

Inward Exposure - Down the Rabbit Hole

Inward Exposure - Cleansing

My latest collection Femme Bounty represents the women’s body and what it is capable of. As a woman, our bodies are able to be sensual but then also able to bear a child. The fruit represents the sensuality and fertility in historic and modern-day context. All of the other fruit has a more sensual context to its nature, you can see that the women are playing with it. 

All of the stances of the women are open and accepting of themselves. I want the viewer to be able to get the emotion from the body language rather than the face. And for the viewer to decide what is happening in the paintings as well. I’ve kept the women faceless because I didn’t want it to represent one particular woman, but to represent all women. 

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