SELF-PORTRAITS (2023)
Self PortrAit -My Memory Playground
Pencil on Paper
420x 594 mm
“A hot summer spent remembering and moving forward with care.”
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
Pencil on Paper (2020)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Lockdown Week 4
Pencil on Paper (2020)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Lockdown Week 2
Pencil on Paper (2020)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Lockdown Week 5
Pencil on Paper (2020)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Lockdown Week 3
Pencil on Paper (2020)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Lockdown Week 6
Pencil on Paper (2020)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
WHEN NIGHT WAS THE DAY TIME - SELF PORTRAIT DIPTYCH (2020)
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.
Bad Week
Pencil on Paper (2004)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Orange
Pencil and Pastel on Paper (2001)
29.7 cm x 42cm
Inside
Pencil on Paper (2001)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Bare Shoulders
Pencil on Paper (2001)
42 x 59.4 cm
Self Portrait (no glasses)
Pencil on Paper (2001)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Self Portrait In Orange (2)
Pencil & Felt Tip on Paper (2001)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Inside (2)
Pencil on Paper (2001)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Self Portrait In Orange
Pencil& Watercolour on Paper (2001)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Round Glasses & Bookshelf
Pencil on Paper (2001)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Self Portrait In Dressing Gown
Pencil & Watercolour on Paper (2001)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Round Glasses
Pencil on Paper (2001)
21 cm x 29.7 cm
Stripes
Pencil and Pastel on Paper (2001)
29.7 cm x 42cm