About "Tenderbeing" Series: Tenderbeing uses nature as a metaphor for what it means to be human. Drawn from moments in the artist's life, each work in this series is a kind of emotional portrait, painted in watercolour on handmade cotton paper.
Short poems accompany each work, acting as entryways into the emotional terrain of the image and offering a moment of reflection for the viewer. Every piece is monochrome, focused, and includes a cutout: a deliberate absence, a shape that once held something, or where meaning lives subtly. The forms are close and sometimes even cropped - like a memory recalled not as a scene, but as a feeling. Plants became a way to speak about being a human - without defending, justifying or explaining. They bend, break, heal, regrow. So do we.
About "Embodied": This is the body in its fullness - ripe, weathered, almost unraveling. The poppy’s form is womb-like, fleshy, exposed, and on the cusp of collapse, speaking to the raw beauty of having fully lived. There is a tension here - between strength and surrender, beauty and impermanence.