INHERITANCE
Three women and a child walk together but alone - figures in a mysterious landscape, drifting through memory, colour and the quiet weight of unspoken stories and belonging They carry inherited remembrances of a not-so-distant past: fragments of their history that linger in the silence between them, carried through colour and presence. The painting speaks of inheritance not as possession, but as emotional residue passed from one generation to the next.


CONFLICT AND PEACE
A woman is clutching the olive branch of peace with despair and pain in her face because she’s at the centre of war, famine and death, standing in the ruins of bombed house. The woman next to her is a city woman whose only news is from TV or newspapers. She’s never felt it, but now is witness to the reality of war. A moment of hope as the next generation watch the angels of peace coming to rescue. A woman and a child in times of famine. And a young man gripping on to barbed wire, a victim of war.

MAGDALENE LAUNDRIES (TEARS OF STONE)
Most girls come her pregnant
Some by their own fathers
Bridget got that belly
By her parish priest
We’re trying to get things white as snow
All of us woe-begotten-daughters
In the steaming stains
Of the Magdalene Laundries
(Lyrics with thanks to Joni Mitchell)

WOMEN WAR PHOTOGRAPHERS
Women War Photographers honours the women who have stepped into conflict not as combatants, but as witnesses. Moving through collapsing landscapes fractured by war, their cameras become both shield and testimony, recording moments the world might otherwise never see. As my heroines I have chosen Gerda Taro (Spanish Civil War), Lee Miller (WW2) and Lynsey Addario (Ukraine and Sudan).

The fourth work in my Women in the World series, it reflects on their courage, vulnerability and determination to look directly at events from which most of us would instinctively turn away.