Motherhood
A modern echo of the timeless mother-and-child motif, this painting captures the primal, protective force of motherhood. The mother stares out, alert and unyielding, while the child sleeps against her shoulder—peaceful, unaware, held. She is tired, but her strength hums beneath the surface. Her body becomes a barrier, her eyes a warning.

Rendered in a language of abstracted realism, the forms stretch and distort just enough to let the emotion break through. The brushwork is raw and intentional, exaggerating the physicality of care. Red seeps through the background like blood or heat—a womb-like field that holds them both in an aura of safety and strain.

Motherhood honours the labour of love, the quiet ferocity of care, and the dual nature of motherhood: soft and sharp, weary and unwavering. It is both personal and archetypal, rooted in the sacred but shaped by the real.