A Room of One’s Own – Women in Still Life
24th November – 14th December
Bett Gallery
Being both Mother and Artist is a delicate balancing act between family’s needs and focusing on one’s art practice. As the Mother in the family, life pivots around me and I am both intersection and central point. It’s a dichotomy that I love and struggle with simultaneously.
My studio is a thoroughfare, refuge and congregating place between the family rooms and living spaces in our farm house in the Macedon Ranges. I strive to seamlessly integrate my creative practice with home life and consequently my children inform my way of seeing and making. The studio’s physical location feels at times like a metaphor also being central to our lives and the beating heart of both home and creative practice.
These works capture a time of day, season, what I’m reading and influenced by during the making of a collection of works. Jars, vases, shells, pencils, lemons and stripes lead the eye across the still life composition. Each object is like a port in which the eye can rest on its journey through the painting.
