My paintings of girls explore the blurred boundary where childish fantasy collides with a growing realization of sexuality and the wider world, when a girl begins to break free and desires, like Alice in Wonderland, to see what is beyond the looking glass.
These girls depicted in their nightdresses appear lost in the woods — are they sleepwalking” — or are you the viewer encountering these forest spirits in a dream world” The young girls are a metaphor for innocence and vulnerability, protectors of untrammeled nature. The forest they inhabit is at once a refuge from, and a symbol of the dark unknown, both of the unconscious and the greater darker side of our present world, menaced by terrorism, wars and global warming.