SELF-PORTRAITS (2023)
Self-Portrait- My Memory Playground (2023)
Pencil on paper
420x 594 mm
Self-Portrait - Me And My Changed Neurotransmitters (2023)
Charcoal on Paper
420x 594 mm
I loved Siri Hustvedt's essay on therapy in "A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women". I wanted to draw and celebrate my own therapeutic journey, now my 9 year (mostly) weekly therapy meetings have drawn to a close. What's changed over those 9 years? I feel I live inside myself more, I am living as myself more. Over 9 years my life has changed enormously in the outside world. Harry's growing up , I am enjoying new sports, new professional developments, significant publications, a teaching career. I know the weekly sessions helped me move along all these important points, with a calmer, and more stable voice and understanding in my head than ever before. I feel I can manage things in my own way these days. Here I am, in my new studio. Behind me are the neurotransmitters in my head. I have changed how I think, how I speak to myself, how I see myself, so these too have changed.
Exhibited in the Ruth Borchard Self-Portrait Online Exhibition 2023
LOCK DOWN SELF-PORTRAITS (2020)
Watch me unravel as the weeks progressed. These drawings featured in “As We Are - Reflections During Lockdown” (2020).
Lockdown Week 1 (2020)
Pencil on Paper
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Lockdown Week 4 (2020)
Pencil on Paper
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Lockdown Week 2 (2020)
Pencil on Paper
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Lockdown Week 5 (2020)
Pencil on Paper
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Lockdown Week 3 (2020)
Pencil on Paper
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Lockdown Week 6 (2020)
Pencil on Paper
21 cm x 29.7 cm
WHEN NIGHT WAS THE DAY TIME - SELF PORTRAIT DIPTYCH (2020)
These paintings were featured in Walk/Create at University of Glasgow.
Blue Sky Walking During a Pandemic (2020)
30x 36 inches
Oil on Canvas
In the Shadow of my Father’s Death (2020)
30x 36 inches
Oil on Canvas
SELF-PORTRAITS (New York 2001)
During a time when I felt afraid of the world, there I was. Something I could hold on to with my pencil and brush. Republished as a two page spread in The Book of Sarah (Myriad Editions/ PSUP) I wrote about it here.
Bad Week (2004)
Pencil on Paper (2004)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Orange (2001)
Pastel and Pencil on Paper
29.7 cm x 42cm
Inside (2001)
Pencil on Paper
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Bare Shoulders (2001)
Pencil on Paper (2001)
42 x 59.4 cm
Self-Portrait (No Glasses) (2001)
Pencil on Paper
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Self Portrait in Orange (2) (2001)
Pencil & Felt Tip on Paper
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Inside (2) (2001)
Pencil on Paper (2001)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Self-Portrait in Orange (2001)
Pencil & Watercolour on Paper
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Round Glasses (and bookshelf) (2001)
Pencil on Paper
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Dressing Gown (2001)
Pencil & Watercolour on Paper
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Round Glasses (2001)
Pencil on Paper
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Stripes (2001)
Pencil and Pastel on Paper (2001)
29.7 cm x 42cm