THE EVE IN ME

The current season of my life has been marked by long awaited endings and new beginnings: Life and heart chapters have closed, only to reopen as blank pages. For the artist a blank canvas is as exhilarating as it is terrifying and I think that feeling goes far beyond the studio and pinches at the universal human soul. When looking into the future I have a tendency to look back, perhaps for a sense of familiarity, illusion of security or perhaps for the confidence to enter the wilderness of the unknown.

The Eve in Me draws inspiration from beginnings and endings, reflected through the myths and spiritual narratives we’ve told across cultures and belief systems. At its core is an exploration of the divine feminine — her strength, her mystery, her cycle of rebirth.

Some references include the birth of the Greek goddess Venus, a subject rendered by painters for centuries, captures an ideal: a civilization’s rebirth, beauty emerging from chaos. In contrast, Antoine Wiertz’s Two Young Girls reminds us of beauty’s fragility and mortality — themes I’ve explored and responded to in my own painting carrying the same name as the show, which was the first of this new body of works. I am curious about the consequences of our choices and am giving into this time with deep yearning for knowledge and wisdom, echoing Eve's pivotal moment of picking the forbidden fruit in my painting “the consequence of everything”. Nine of my sculptures are on display, each carrying the spirit of resurrection. These clay figures, wrapped in tight leather weavings, seem caught in a moment of tension — as if they are either emerging from confinement or being slowly consumed by it. They embody the struggle and beauty of transformation, the paradox of creation and destruction. This show is a dialogue between those poles: the eternal and the fleeting, the mythical and the personal, the Eve in all of us.