COVID CATS
Artist Statement
In March fear played a great part in my life in regards to the Coronavirus. Fitting into the older venerable category I was pretty sure I had a good chance of dying. Therefore, in March I closed down my Dental Surgery and my B&B, this allowed my art career to expand and flourish. In my artwork I have used my cat as a metaphor for my life.
I have also looked at the colours of COVID19, from the base chakra colours (physically stopping) to the balanced colours of the green chakra (juggling) through blue of communication to the violet of the spiritual world where Bengie succumbs.
This has not happened yet but I still am processing the fear of a second wave, but still try to move on.
I have tied up the COVID19 Pandemic with the Black Lives Matters movement with the addition of “I can’t breathe”. Every suppressed, depressed, abused, venerable person, plant and animal deserves to live.
My COVID Cat Bengie explores what it is like to live during a pandemic.
ART FOR CHARITY – BATS
Artist Statement
This year my sculpture has been Bats! My studio is overrun with them!
Sunset Lockdown Puffins
Artist Statement
It is hard to believe after the year that the world has had with the COVID19 Pandemic, that I visited the Arctic Circle in January 2020.
The Puffin, “Is it a Priest or a Clown?”
We have needed both since March 2020
Its genes name is Fratercula (little Friar). Its orange beak and orange webbed feet make the puffin somewhat clown like!
While we are in lockdown the puffins have a decreased number of visitors, so I have put them in Coronavirus lockdown at home as well, until we can all visit them again!
