Daisy Chain (🏆 Revival Art Prize People's Choice Award)
This year I have discovered, like countless other women, that I have ADHD. I've found the process both embarrassing and enlightening. On one hand it's like I have discovered I'm a bad friend/partner/daughter/mother, but on the other I now understand some of the reasons why I feel so paralysed when it comes to making connections. This painting is my way of exploring these revelations, and questioning whether I would choose to change these things about myself, or embrace them and wear them with pride. I often use the symbols of the phone and daisies to reference relationships, friendships and connection.
This canvas has been home to many different paintings over the years, which you can see through the varying texture behind this final artwork. I love my paintings to have a history behind them, just like us. You can't see all the iterations that have gone before, but you can see (and feel) the evidence of them on the final product.
"Daisy Chain" is part of a series called 'There is something glowing in me that you say is broken', which is all about exploring this new understanding of myself.
This year I have discovered, like countless other women, that I have ADHD. I've found the process both embarrassing and enlightening. On one hand it's like I have discovered I'm a bad friend/partner/daughter/mother, but on the other I now understand some of the reasons why I feel so paralysed when it comes to making connections. This painting is my way of exploring these revelations, and questioning whether I would choose to change these things about myself, or embrace them and wear them with pride. I often use the symbols of the phone and daisies to reference relationships, friendships and connection.
This canvas has been home to many different paintings over the years, which you can see through the varying texture behind this final artwork. I love my paintings to have a history behind them, just like us. You can't see all the iterations that have gone before, but you can see (and feel) the evidence of them on the final product.
"Daisy Chain" is part of a series called 'There is something glowing in me that you say is broken', which is all about exploring this new understanding of myself.
This year I have discovered, like countless other women, that I have ADHD. I've found the process both embarrassing and enlightening. On one hand it's like I have discovered I'm a bad friend/partner/daughter/mother, but on the other I now understand some of the reasons why I feel so paralysed when it comes to making connections. This painting is my way of exploring these revelations, and questioning whether I would choose to change these things about myself, or embrace them and wear them with pride. I often use the symbols of the phone and daisies to reference relationships, friendships and connection.
This canvas has been home to many different paintings over the years, which you can see through the varying texture behind this final artwork. I love my paintings to have a history behind them, just like us. You can't see all the iterations that have gone before, but you can see (and feel) the evidence of them on the final product.
"Daisy Chain" is part of a series called 'There is something glowing in me that you say is broken', which is all about exploring this new understanding of myself.