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This image was used for the front cover of a book about women and motherhood in Greece.
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Every month has two flowers attached to it. This collection of small paintings will be collated into one large painting once I have painted all twelve months!
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Commission for ParkinsonsUK
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A celebration of the female through flowers and fruits.
2017 was a turbulent and trying year for women, from the inauguration of Donald Trump, the explosive succession of reports of sexual harassment and assault and the shocking exposure of pay gaps across the genders. With the centenary of (some women) gaining the right to vote in the UK, 2018 is set to be a year for women to rise, re-energised, to use their voices and talents to influence and demand real change.
Many of her botanical pieces in this exhibition refer to the taboos placed on the natural menstrual cycle and seek to empower this beautiful gift bestowed upon the female sex. The paintings hope to promote open and positive conversations around a topic normally associated with secrecy and disgust in a world where women, even on our own doorstep, are unable to afford or have access to sanitary products.
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Iris was the Greek goddess of the rainbow. Purple irises were placed over the graves of women in Ancient times to summon the Goddess Iris to guide the dead in their journey from earth to heaven via a rainbow.
To deflect the impression of masculinity that was projected upon the women’s suffrage movement, women were encouraged to wear dresses in delicate fabrics and colours. Devised in 1908 by Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, their official colours were purple, for loyalty and dignity; white for purity and green for hope.
‘Purple, as everyone knows, is a royal colour, it stands for the royal blood that flows in the veins of every suffragette, the instinct of freedom and dignity...white stands for purity in private and public life...green is the colour of hope and the emblem of spring. ‘ Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, editor of Votes for Women
Why is it so easy to blame a woman for her own sexual assault in this world? Because she ate the apple first. She sinned first. So we blame her. It is that easy.
Society used to refer to the sacred period as woman’s ‘moon time’ as their cycle was synced with the moon. The word menstruation itself is derived from the Greek and Latin words meaning month and moon.
When a woman ovulates with the full moon and bleeds on the new moon, she is following the White Moon cycle. Her body acts as a perfect mirror for the fertility of the earth since the earth itself is most fertile under the light of the full moon. The White Moon cycle represents the fertile power of women and was considered the cycle of the ‘good mother’.
Women who bleed during the full moon follow the Red Moon cycle which was linked the archetype of the seductress, the enchantress and the women who knew how to wield healing power and magic. She was considered by our patriarchal ancestors to be the ‘evil woman’. In truth, this moon cycle belonged to the medicine women, to the midwives, the magic-makers and the wisdom keepers of the community. These women were not focusing their feminine energies to give birth to children, rather their energy was used to empower other women and their communities.
In mythology, menstruation was seen as a punishment after the Moon Goddess – who represented women, sexuality and fertility – disobeyed the rules of the alliance and slept with the Sun God.
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Studies of Flowers in watercolour
