'Fires in the Mind - Towards Awareness'

h: 67cm x w: 55cm Mixed media - watercolour, ink, chalk pastel on paper My ongoing series of paintings 'Fires in the Mind' make reference to the source of inspiration of my late husband's installation of the same name. ‘Towards Awareness’ expresses the beginning signs of movement towards focus and a more frequent feeling of calm. Still sensing the omnipresent hair trigger of grief that kicks my feet from under me, the slow process of regaining my centre and grounding myself has begun. An easing of lockdown restrictions over this summer has highlighted to me the need to find the courage to become more earthed and focussed as the world too begins to feel its way through this pandemic that has changed everything in everyone's lives forever.