I love drawing, playing and experimenting. These are developments and extracts from other projects. I have now decided to sell some of them and on the right platforms have had good responses.
As an illustrator and designer of many years I am used to evaluating and communicating culture through visual mediums.
The hair:
Hair has always, (in some way) reflected society. Especially for women. It has been used to depict wealth, status and culture. For example, to shame a woman in medieval times was to cut her hair, in the Renaissance period, long hair suggested a heavenly status and fertility. How a woman wears her hair can also translate to her value in society.
Often older women cut their hair to prevent ‘looking older’. In this way, long hair carries the currency of youth and feminine power. An abundance of choice and possibility in today's western society.
In these drawings I use hair and movement to suggest this youthful freedom and empowerment. The mane of a woman here holds the symbolism of a lioness.
I am intending to do more focused drawings in the future and will be showing at several art fairs and selected galleries in London and Hertfordshire. COVID dependant.
I may even use social media more to my emotional detriment.
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