- 45cm x 55cm
- Oil and pigment on board
There aren’t many similarities between the two places I have called home, but the ocean is one of them. I know the ocean will be different every day and there is a comfort in knowing that. Yet, I am humbled at the sheer force of the ocean one day compared to the tempered calm it presents the next.
It is as mercurial as it is vast, and that never ceases to amaze me. My artworks often deal with complex themes relating to the human condition including identity, memory and the subconscious. It’s through the ambiguities of the human experience that I find inspiration to make. The inter-connectedness of the ocean is a metaphor for my vast network of memories spanning multiple continents. It has become the bridge between worlds for me – my life growing up in Bermuda and my life here in Newcastle, raising my own children.
My artwork, ‘Salt in the Wound’, references the bittersweet memories of childhood with the bittersweet pangs of raising a family here in Newcastle. This painting is the confluence of my past and my future, breaking upon the shoreline.