Becoming (framed)

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Oil painting on canvas • Framed in an ornate gold coloured box frame

Signed on the front • Ready to hang

70 x 70 x 7 cm / 27 x 27 x 3 inches (including frame)

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I made this painting in a moment of great personal struggle. I was nearing the end of a significant chapter of my life and staring into a large void that lay before me, trying not to fall in. It took all that I had to weather that personal storm and more than once I very nearly lost my nerve. 

But some part of me knew. Not only that I could get through, but that I needed to. An entire new self awaited me on the other side of this despair. And the part of me that composed this painting knew it. 

Looking back, there is no other way that such a powerfully optimistic painting could come out of such a dark moment. But I somehow knew. A new, greater, more connected version of myself was being born. I was becoming something else. 

In times of great challenge, we need great inspiration, and who better than the lioness to remind a woman of her inner power? This was my second hybrid in the series, and it stood as a beacon of bravery, determination and strength in the face of adversity. 

The sky and the sea behind her seem almost aflame, yet she stands, triumphant, unwavering. She is all of us, she is our natural world. She is our collective ability to regenerate, to survive against all odds.