‘Each layer tells a story’
The emotion of home, the beauty of cracks and the nostalgia of what used to be, all serve as the starting point of my work.
The depth of texture and tactility is essential in all of my art series, whether the media are cotton papers, chalk, spackle or acrylic paint.
Behind my series ‘Patches’ and ‘Patched Up' is a little everyday story of my own. The two series came from a need to repair an earlier big linen piece hanging over our bed. My daughter had been jumping up and down on the bed and accidentally kicked her foot through the piece making a big hole in the middle of it. I patched it up using small squares of pigmented paper, that I gently painted over so the different textures still appeared. Now this piece is hanging in my living room as a “prototype” and will never be for sale. But this piece still inspires me to similar artworks telling similar stories. The tale of ‘Patches’ and ‘Patched Up’ feels so relevant today as it is a story about fixing things when they are broken instead of throwing them away. To keep the memories intact while building new ones on top. Like the Japanese Kintsugi tradition, which really emphasizes that ‘each layer tells a story’.