Mothers II, 2025, acrylic on canvas 160 x 200cm 

Mothers, we all have one. I have two. In this painting, both are present: my adoptive mother and my biological mother, held within its layers. One known, one imagined; one present, one absent. The painting lives in that space between.

The decision to become a mother, or not, has always been complex, a question many women of a certain age are asked to carry. Motherhood is not inevitable, nor is it possible or right for everyone.

This work honours motherhood in all its tenderness and difficulty, its joy and its cost. At the same time, it holds the weight of an unresolved question shaped by the world we live in now: what does it mean to choose motherhood today? And what does it mean to choose otherwise?