Secret Garden Painting

This painting is part of a series I am working on currently which addresses issues of motherhood, body image, identity and postpartum mental health. I have been inspired by Frida Kahlo’s self-portraits since I learnt about it as an art student in my twenties in Paris. In this piece I am using a similar philosophy to document the personal through symbolic and surrealistic analogies. I chose to explore my inner fears, weaknesses and vulnerabilities in this piece, as an effort to confront them and, in some way, find a resolution. I hope through this series, to de-stigmatize a lot of the issues brought on by motherhood, and open up a meaningful dialog about them.