Pregnancy food cravings
Facebook Friends responded to a post requesting them to send me details of their pregnancy food cravings. Their responses formed the design for these digital paintings which use colour and text to reference the various food types they divulged as pregnancy fads.
Yorkshire Art Loop
As part of the Yorkshire Art Loop exhibition at the Pop Up Art Space in Bradford, I will be exhibiting a series of Digital Prints based on Facebook friends pregnancy cravings. This collaborative project is the result of 33 artists visual responses to a poem by Ian Mcmillan.
Birth: icon drawings
This series of ink and pencil drawings have been created through making observational drawings from youtube birth videos, and in referencing the birth records of my two sons, remembering the physical and emotional experiences of birth and referencing historical anatomy sketches.
Mother & Child workshop
Created as part of the Big Draw, this workshop included a life drawing session from a Mother and Child life models, a seminar about the representation of Mother and Child in art history and contemporary fine art, together with time to develop work inspired by personal experiences of mothering.
Pregnant workshop
Created as part of the Big Draw, this workshop included a life drawing session from a Pregnant life model, a seminar about the representation of the Pregnant body in art history and contemporary fine art, together with time to develop work inspired by personal experiences of pregnancy.
Big Draw workshops: Pregnant and Mother & Child.
Both workshops are suitable for the beginner and experienced alike. To book a place on either of these two workshop’s or for further information please do not hesitate to contact me. Exploring the pregnant body through drawing and painting. Exploring the relationship between mother and child through drawing and painting. Exploring the pregnant body through...
Birth: paint sample sketches
Painted on DIY paint sample's this series of drawings depicts the second active stage of labour as the cervix opens.
Pregnant: paint sample sketches
Both of these digital sketches have been developed from a series of ink drawings on DIY paint sample paper.
Linden Arts Group Winter Exhibition
A group exhibition of work by the Linden Arts Group showing work by Joan Francis, Sheila Tilmouth, Louise Crosby, Sara McDade and Helen Sargeant, held at the Festival Shop, Hebden Bridge in November 2011.
M(other)s Stories
"M(other)s Stories is a current research project that draws directly upon maternal experiences to create visual and text based narratives exposing the work of mothers."
hand holding-standing-hugging
"A series of observational drawings from a mothers perspective exploring the intimate relationship that she holds with her child."