Over the last year I have used en plein air painting as a tool to keep me practising as an artist, as a way to ground me. Within my studio I have processed what the pandemic has meant to me as a mother. In the last few months, I have been processing this from drawings done of the children over the internet and in response to the way we are communicating through Messenger and Zoom. These ongoing and as yet unfinished works have been held in place by the rhythm of the daily painting. The pandemic mothering pieces are mixed media, they break the rules of painting and drawing. They can be found in the blog.

In the exhibition are the landscapes and locations that kept me focused. These paintings are quickly done, looking for light and structure. Finding the moment, inhabiting it and then expressing it.