Mixed media on canvas
80 x 70cm, unframed
No Peace in Me explores what it felt like to fall in love with a woman after growing up in a Catholic household. There was a tenderness in that love that felt simple when we were alone. The unease came in the ordinary moments, like deciding how much of a story I could tell without saying who I’d spent the day with.
I wanted this painting to hold both feelings at once. I could feel completely at ease with someone I loved and still hear myself choosing my words carefully around other people. The title comes from the exhaustion of living with that tension, and the wish to speak about love as freely as I felt it.
Mixed media on canvas
80 x 70cm, unframed
No Peace in Me explores what it felt like to fall in love with a woman after growing up in a Catholic household. There was a tenderness in that love that felt simple when we were alone. The unease came in the ordinary moments, like deciding how much of a story I could tell without saying who I’d spent the day with.
I wanted this painting to hold both feelings at once. I could feel completely at ease with someone I loved and still hear myself choosing my words carefully around other people. The title comes from the exhaustion of living with that tension, and the wish to speak about love as freely as I felt it.