I Broke Free
Acrylic on paper 40 x 50cm (framed)

£100 (please email to purchase)

Who Was I Then?
Acrylic on paper 40 x 50cm (framed)

£100 (please email to purchase)

Everything I was, Everything I am, is a deeply personal exploration of identity and the ways it is shaped, fractured, and concealed over time. It reflects on the lived experience of domestic abuse, late-diagnosed ADHD, motherhood, and perimenopause – life stages and events that carry both loss and transformation.
The work highlights how the self can become fragmented: how we lose parts of ourselves in order to survive, how we forget who we once were, and how we learn to wear masks to make ourselves safer or more acceptable to others.
At its heart, this body of work asks: what remains when so many layers of identity are stripped away? Is it possible to recover what was lost, or must we learn to embrace what has emerged in its place?
These pieces hold space for the silenced, hidden, and unacknowledged aspects of self – the parts pushed down or erased in order to belong.
Everything I Was, Everything I Am is both a mourning of the selves left behind and a reclamation of the strength, resilience, and creativity that endure.

This work was howm at a solo exhibition at Monkton Arts, Ryde 16-26 September 2025.

Supported by an a-n bursary.