The PAINTED SCULPTURE features strongly in my art and is the truest of descriptions for my 3D work.

TO CREATE is one of 5 sculptures I have made in 2021 that belongs to my Wishing Tree Story (listen and watch it HERE)

It depicts a person who has visited the wishing tree and shared with it their deepest longing. The experience leaves them changed. They leave with a clearer picture of who they are and who they can become .

This is expressed in an image they either hold or wear, a portrait of themselves; their ideal self or true self.

To Create represents her wish to create, to be an artist, to blossom and is expressed as a painting of herself surrounded by  hundreds of blossoming flowers. She has painted this portrait herself and holds it proudly, together with her paintbrushes.

Each person who visits the tree takes a part of it’s branches or leaves with them. This symbolizes that their encounter has changed them and put them on a path of growth. The painter has only a few flowers blossoming from the branches attached to her body, a sign of things to come.

They carry the wishing tree’s words and presence within them. They are guided to go through a deep cleansing and understanding of their true self.

Eventually the tree will call them back, once their wish is ready to be granted/manifested. They will be told a unique story, fairy tale, myth that holds the essence of their heart’s desire, in it.

In the hearing: it comes true, and in the telling: the story is released into the air like pollen, spreading far and wide in the form of stories and fables.

These will  be woven into the fabric of cultures and take their place amongst the human library of magical tales. Shared, spoken and heard, around the world, and entering the hearts and souls of others.