Man One 1985 Acrylic on Canvas 229cm x 91.5cm ‘Man One’ is a feminist response to William de Kooning’s 1950 painting ‘Woman 1’. On a large vertical canvas, using industrial paint, I aimed to show that a woman painter could also create an erotic Abstract Expressionist...
The Great Divide 1985 Acrylic on Canvas 229cm x 91.5cm ‘The Great Divide’ is the second painting set in an imaginary landscape. Inspiration included the symbolic language of primitive X-ray paintings and also the paintings of Helen Frankenthaler and Lee Krasner, whose...
Big Yellow Drip 1985 Acrylic on Canvas 229cm x 91.5cm Large scale painting requires a large quantity of paint, so I used a lot of yellow industrial paint on the third canvas. Interested in the way each drip of paint could be understood as either a single sperm or...
The Givers of Life 1985 Acrylic on Canvas 122cm x 91.5cm This autobiographical work painted when I was forty, is a symbolic statement about my relationships with my husband and another man. The decorative style of the connected phallus containing the life giving sperm...
The Blue Egg 1985 Acrylic on Canvas 122cm x 91.5cm I experimented with the medium of this painting to create an expressive textured surface. The egg is a worldwide symbol for life or the womb, and in Christian art blue is a symbol for both life – giving water, the sky...
Menstrual Door 1985 Acrylic on Canvas 122cm x 91.5cm The attitudes towards menstruation have differed widely in world religions and cultures. Christianity made it a negative taboo, while in Egyptian art menstrual blood was a symbol of the life force from the creative...
