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My work is shaped by my life, my experiences - and the bridge that links my life and my work is my visual diary. It came to life after my children were born - I'd lost the link between work and life and I needed to find a way to resolve the inherent conflict between motherhood and painting. The diary quickly became central to my work. It is intimate, private and uncensored, and travels with me wherever I go. Having a diary invites possibility, and it’s this possibility and openess to re-intepretation – once an image has escaped the confines of the diary – that excites and beguiles me. I feel that my work is suggesting a different, more vicarious view of life – one in which the fragility of the everyday is exposed. It's a way of giving voice when I would normally be silent or guarded. It is, in a sense, holding a mirror up to life and studying its reflection.
