TENFOLD

In this series, I focused on refinement, movement, repetition, flexibility and simplicity – which can have a ripple effect if they are all applied to our daily lives. I chose paper because it’s a material that embodies these attributes. It requires a refining process to make pulp. It’s light, easily transportable and can be duplicated to the same size and colour. It’s flexible in that it can transform into something new, like a painting, a cup, a book, cash, etc., and can upcycle something else into a new form. For example, the kind I used is from off-cut white cotton T-shirts. A basic that most of us have.

Each painting starts with a pastel drawing of a delicate flower and is then hand-painted in bold colour. The colour signifies the strength we can muster within, regardless of whether we may look or feel fragile. The pastel lines are left unaided as a marker to record progress, to see how far we’ve come, and a reminder of the bigger picture of where we are.