My Girl and Doll 2010
I was the sixth born child in an eventual family of eight, Patricia, James, Michael and Susan were born in the nine years before me. My mother had a baby girl Karen who had died eighteen months before I was born at the tender age of eight weeks old. When I was born my mother showered me with love and affection, my brother John was born seventeen months later. My mother had two further daughters Carolyn eleven years later and Danielle nineteen years later. When my sister Carolyn was born I was no longer the spoilt youngest daughter but I quickly matured to care for her like a young mother, as my parents had started to have a social life and went out several nights a week.
My paintings are fraught with confused, ambiguous images of children/women and dolls. All the elements that they contain are part of the uncanny feelings that they recreate. They are also based on times in a young girls life that she is a child emerging into a young woman but before the ackowledgement of a teenager begins. The feelings of the forgotten childhood of the past when girls played with dolls and made a home for them. Clothes and furniture were gathered and comfort was sought!
My paintings are fraught with confused, ambiguous images of children/women and dolls. All the elements that they contain are part of the uncanny feelings that they recreate. They are also based on times in a young girls life that she is a child emerging into a young woman but before the ackowledgement of a teenager begins. The feelings of the forgotten childhood of the past when girls played with dolls and made a home for them. Clothes and furniture were gathered and comfort was sought!
