Sensuality and the Surreal
"Trauma Dance"

Chapter III

From Seperation to Unity.

"Trauma Dance"

"Trauma Dance"

This is the first in a series of 3D collages made with found images and Chiaroscuro.

These images are created as an illusion, based loosely on marionettes and paper theatres of childhood.

This first work is of the series is Called “Trauma Dance” it reflects the moment when sexual energy enters our lives within adolescence. This energy can fracture depending on what we experience around us at this time of becoming.

The shattered limbs and legs laid back ,symbolise the breaking of girl in order to become woman.

Floating amongst the current of an agitated erotic tide, erotic energy is a current that can create chaos unless we clear the channel in order to create from it.

A moving series, that holds different emotive states in each frame, alluding to the layers of dense emotion that can block us from fully embodying our soul song in this life.

This piece is an edition of 9.

It is numbered, signed and embossed.

Dimensions: 210mm x 297mm available framed or unframed.

Giclee print on 308gsm Hahnemühle photo rag paper.

"Swallowed Crimson"

"Swallowed Crimson"

Representing repressed sexual power and anger turned inwards. Images of a scarlet woman emerge from the shadows, an arm carries a sharp spear turned inwards, pointed heels and red lips emerge out of darkness.

What lies hidden amongst the shadows when our full spectrum cannot be expressed?

This piece is an edition of 9.

Each work is numbered, signed and embossed.

Dimensions: 210mm x 297mm available framed or unframed.

Giclee print on beautiful matt 308gsm Hahnemühle photo rag paper.

Framed in a neat and elegant low profile handmade black waxed wooden frame.

"River of Tears"

"River of Tears"

A black space holds an archway of light, with shadows cast upon it. A closed eye is washed with tears, mirroring a white jacketed torso.

This image has echoes of the void, the place of sadness and solitude.

To feel our grief transforms us, and this is a meditation on the beauty fo tears and how they can cleanse us, if we let them.

This piece is an edition of 9.

Each piece is numbered, signed and embossed.

Dimensions: 210mm x 297mm available framed or unframed.

Giclee print on beautiful matt 308gsm Hahnemühle photo rag paper.

"Shame's Shadow"

"Shame's Shadow"

The spell of shame’s shadow looms large over us, it stifles, and constricts, but also act to keep us safe.

Crossed exposed legs, jostle with deep black abstract shapes, obscuring folded arms that keep hidden the heart.

An electric rainbow ripples up one side of the image, alluding to the erotic charge of shame and how we can step in to its inverse nature to express our deepest depths of guilt to transmute and transform them into erotic charge.

A moving series, that holds different emotive states in each frame, alluding to the layers of heavy emotion that can block us from fully embodying our soul song in this life.

This piece is an edition of 9.

It is numbered, signed and embossed.

Dimensions: 210mm x 297mm.

Giclee print on 308gsm Hahnemühle photo rag paper.

"Womb Chasm"

"Womb Chasm"

An adorned arm outstretched, the desire to create, the embellished mother. A pregnant body sits over a golden orb with silken fabric flowing to the earth from the skies above, the channel of spirit to earth.

The repsonsibility of the womb, how do we create with it?

As women we get to create.

This glowing image represents hope amongst more challenging states, a moment of peace and stillness.

Light filled and soft in energy, this image is an ode to creation of all kinds.

This piece is an edition of 9.

It is numbered, signed and embossed.

Dimensions: 210mm x 297mm available framed or unframed.

Giclee print on 308gsm Hahnemühle photo rag paper.

"Hidden Magician"

"Hidden Magician"

Theatrical and dramatic, a spotlight shines upon a blindfolded woman, luxurious fabrics dance and sexual tension emanates from this scene.

What do we keep hidden from ourselves? The deepest wildest dreams, this is where our magic lies, in the places we fear to tread.

In tha shadows lies lost power, in bringing this to light we can evolve and step in to all we are here to become.

This piece is an edition of 9.

It is numbered, signed and embossed.

Dimensions: 210mm x 297mm available framed or unframed.

Giclee print on 308gsm Hahnemühle photo rag paper.

"Winds of Apathy"

"Winds of Apathy"

When we turn away from our emotional density we submit to stasis.

This image is a reminder to face our depths, so the winds of apathy don’t blow away our true fate.

A back is turned, while fabrics billow in the breeze. One foot instead of two holds our figure representing instability and the need for grounding.

Unexamined emotions, rule us and as Jung stated. “If we do not make the unconscious, conscious it will direct your life and you will call it fate”.

This piece is an edition of 9.

It is numbered, signed and embossed.

Dimensions: 210mm x 297mm

"Sensual Soul"

"Sensual Soul"

This image represents the unification of the sensual energy of the feminine, able to receive and inhabit the natural, grounded flow of eros this image is part of the completion of the cycle.

Warm golden light caresses the abstract curves of this sensual embodied feminine, her gift is to receive and create.

This piece is an edition of 9.

Each piece is numbered, signed and embossed.

Dimensions: 210mm x 297mm available.

Giclee print on 308gsm Hahnemühle photo rag paper.

"Solar Command"

"Solar Command"

A bold torso sits in synergy with scarlet flag and striding feet of a woman. She is triumphant, unapologetic and direct, a master of both solar and lunar energy.

This honours the outgoing assertive feminine. The balance of the assertive and sensual, able to take, give and receive, is the union of this oddessy of the erotic. Uniting the fractured energies, this is the finale to this series of emotive motifs.

This piece is an edition of 9.

The pice is numbered, signed and embossed.

Dimensions: 210mm x 297mm available framed or unframed.

Giclee print on 308gsm Hahnemühle photo rag paper.