These paintings are from a project entitled, Love Letters From The Labyrinth. I laid a rope labyrinth in my back garden in September 2019 which I then covered with leaves from the surrounding trees as they fell. I walked this labyrinth often and wrote about it afterwards recording the thoughts and feelings I gathered from each experience. Each walk gave me different things to think about and often delivered wisdom I very much needed as I negotiated a new path for myself following the death of my mum the year before. The title comes from the fact I felt each walk resulted in a love letter from the wisdom-filled part of myself. I was teaching myself how to work through the grief I carried with compassion and understanding.
These paintings were first exhibited during my North East Open Studios (NEOS) event with Val Thomson in Aberdeen city from 11th – 19th September 2021.
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30 x 30 cm on cradled panel
£175

30 x 30 cm on cradled panel
£175

30 x 30 cm on cradled panel
SOLD

30 x 30 cm on cradled panel
£175

30 x 30 cm on cradled panel
£175

£175

£175

Writing To The Self I
40.5 x 51 cm on cradled panel
SOLD

30 x 30 cm on cradled panel
£175
This next set of paintings make up another series of oil and cold wax paintings entitled Talking To The Tides which I painted alongside the Love Letters To The Labyrinth series.

37.5 x 27.5 cm on paper mounted on cradled panel.
£175

40.5 x 30.5 cm on cradled panel
£220

41 x 31 cm on paper, unframed
Unavailable

42 x 32 cm on paper framed in 1 cm wide white frame
£240


30 x 30 cm on cradled panel
£175


30 x 30 cm on cradled panel
SOLD

30 x 30 cm on cradled panel
£175

30 x 30 cm on cradled panel
£175

30 x 30 cm on cradled panel
£175

£175

Writing To The Self II
40.5 x 51 cm on cradled panel
£250

Count Your Blessings II
30 x 30 cm on cradled panel
£175

41 x 31 cm on board, framed
SOLD

41 x 30.5 cm on paper, unframed
Unavailable

39 x 29 cm on paper, unframed
£150

39 x 31 cm on multimedia artboard, framed in 1 cm wide white frame
£220