Cooking up a Pearl Painting

Painted in vivid red, blue and gold, this painting is a diptych, done on two panels. The images span both and they can be hung adjacent or with space between. The edges are painted a neutral gray and it is wired for hanging. This piece was created during my years of pregnancy and childbirth. I completed this while trying to get pregnant with our second child and having a miscarriage. This was my way of sorting through the emotions and pain at the time. I was playing with collaging eggshells in a trial piece which I then implemented into this work (only the 2nd mixed media piece I've done in oils as a professional artist). They are both structural and metaphorical. My mom had loaned me her egg cooker to use as subject matter, and at the same time I had started saving eggshells that I thought I may incorporate into works.