Paintings 2006/7
“None of these paintings depict my grandmother’s actual house; most use as a model the paintings of the Victorian painter, Helen Allingham. In reality the cottage, like the grandmother, like, indeed, ‘the feminine’, can be both stifling and nurturing, both enchanting and repellent. The cottage is a motif central to cultural identity because, I would argue, of this relationship with the maternal.”
EM 2007
My Grandmother’s House