The Big Cup of Total Truth and Honesty, 45 x 50 x 38 cm, 2021
“That nagging feeling of substituting and compromising your real self , suffocated and unfulfilled, resentful and frustrated has been inside me festering and clawing away at my soul. I covered up so much of my own truth and was dishonest with myself. Not making my art became a huge destructive force in my life, niggling and poking away at me and damaging me and I think it was at the root of a lot of my depression and mental health issues. I deprived myself of so much self value and true happiness by not allowing myself to pursue my art practice. But now I am an artist and I make good art and I am fulfilled and I am so utterly overjoyed.”