Prism
Pastel Drawing on Canvas.
This drawing is No. 11 in the series for the ‘Everyday Matriarchal Heroines’ series exhibiting in November 2018. Completed 5 August 2018
Keeper Of Secrets
Keeper Of Secrets
Pastel on canvas.
No.10 in the ‘Everyday Matriarchal Heroines’ Series 2018.
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Addiction Affliction
Pastel on canvas.
Number 9 in the ‘Everyday Matriarchal Heroines’ Series 2018
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Saeva Buella
Pastel drawing on canvas. The 7th work for the ‘Everyday Matriarchal Heroines ‘ series 2018. See blog for more information.
Valerie
Pastel on Canvas.
‘Valerie’ is the title for this drawing on canvas. The definition of the name Valerie, is actually an Old English name derived from the Roman male version of the name with the same meaning: Valiant and courageous.
The narrative is explained further in What’s on? What’s New? Blog It On! section.
Manumission
This is the 6th pastel drawing work in the series for ‘Everyday Matriarchal Heroines’ which will be part of a series of 12 drawings of heroic women. Manumission is about a story of a woman who was being violated by her previous husband and was rescued from a pathetic fate by the man she is married to today. The intricacies to the story go much deeper, as this beautiful woman also suffers from MS. She works full time and takes a lot of life in her stride. She is grateful that every day is away from her former dreadful past. Having MS is a hard slog, and to know her is to but admire her.
Amour- Propre
Pastel on canvas. No.5 in the ‘Everyday Matriarchal Heroines’ Series
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Anastasis
Pastel on canvas. 12th March 2018
Anastasis means ‘to rise up’, ‘to rise up again’, ‘to be reborn again’, ‘resurrection’, to be ‘resurrected from a debilitating illness’.
To watch helplessly while your little girl’s life is in the balance , can be any parent’s nightmare.
To have faith in something that is believed that cannot be seen, to be there when all else can fail, and to be finally rescued through what seems like a personal nightmare, is now seen as a past memory that makes one shudder at the recall of a memory so vivid to already be a few years later.
Jewel Of Denial
Pastel on canvas.
This work titled ‘Jewel Of Denial’ is a play on words as any movie goer would know. However, this particular ‘jewel’ does justify her as one true heroine. There are not always problems in trusting family members with your own collateral. This heroine lost almost everything, and came out of a very hard situation a much wiser person for it. See the blog for more information.
This is the third completed work being part of a year long’s series of works, will be exhibited in the ‘Everyday Matriarchal Heroines’ exhibition at the end of 2018, along with many more “Everyday Matriarchal Heroines’ upcoming project work. (as at 1 March 2018)
Abaddon’s Locusts
Pastel on canvas. 22 February, 2018
This is the 2nd drawing in a Women’s Series that I am currently doing for 2018.
The series is titled ‘Matriarchal Heroines’, typifying the heroines of the everyday world
in which we live in. The exhibition at the end of this year is to bring awareness of an
egoistic culture focused on selfies and materialism. This series is to bring to mind that we are all human no matter
what car you own or new plastics you have bought.
‘Abaddon’s Locusts’ is about a heroine who braved her own fears and came out victorious from
bullying, deceit, treachery and cruelty that lasted for a span of about 2 years.