Exploring the interlacing of life while searching for self
Jigsaw pieces, tea bags, sand marks, binary codes, neurotransmitters and flights into outer space!
While the symbols and messagery of my multi-media work are seemingly diverse, an underlying thread runs through my creative process.
A thread comprises many strands, wound tightly together to give it strength. A recurrent theme central to my work is a fraying of the thread - the loss of trust, the state of vulnerability - but also the courage to accept, rewind and make strong again.
I believe for most of us the fraying of the threads is created largely by external events and influences beyond our control and consciousness. Recurrent negative messages etch over time into our neural pathways.
The surfaces of my work reflect back from the depths of mind, helping me untangle and scrape away those etched pathways. Clearing the path, allowing me to see now that our thoughts and past events are like clouds in the sky. I do not have to hold them within nor do they amount to the sum total of who I am right this minute. I can just let them pass and 'be' totally in the moment.
I believe art has the power to help us become aware of ourselves, our thoughts, our environment and the universal consciousness. Through slowing down and having stillness of mind we can become aware of self and the is'ness of life.
Art can give us that time to be still.
My Mission:
To create work which will help me get back to self, to the moment by moment wholeness of being.
To be able to feel the absolute completeness of every moment and be happy for no other reason than that.
I live in East Auckland, New Zealand, with my husband Lee Umbers and our dog Millie.
We have three adult children, one of which, our youngest son Callan, sadly passed away in 2019
While the symbols and messagery of my multi-media work are seemingly diverse, an underlying thread runs through my creative process.
A thread comprises many strands, wound tightly together to give it strength. A recurrent theme central to my work is a fraying of the thread - the loss of trust, the state of vulnerability - but also the courage to accept, rewind and make strong again.
I believe for most of us the fraying of the threads is created largely by external events and influences beyond our control and consciousness. Recurrent negative messages etch over time into our neural pathways.
The surfaces of my work reflect back from the depths of mind, helping me untangle and scrape away those etched pathways. Clearing the path, allowing me to see now that our thoughts and past events are like clouds in the sky. I do not have to hold them within nor do they amount to the sum total of who I am right this minute. I can just let them pass and 'be' totally in the moment.
I believe art has the power to help us become aware of ourselves, our thoughts, our environment and the universal consciousness. Through slowing down and having stillness of mind we can become aware of self and the is'ness of life.
Art can give us that time to be still.
My Mission:
To create work which will help me get back to self, to the moment by moment wholeness of being.
To be able to feel the absolute completeness of every moment and be happy for no other reason than that.
I live in East Auckland, New Zealand, with my husband Lee Umbers and our dog Millie.
We have three adult children, one of which, our youngest son Callan, sadly passed away in 2019