"This series of paintings was born out of an effort to realign myself. The collection is filled with introspection and an honest commitment to a learning process. My goal was to paint 100 women from a place of pure emotion.
This process opened up a Pandora's box of expression and feeling for me. The vulnerability felt uncomfortable yet empowering. I gave myself grace and allowed myself to feel my transformative truth.
As I worked my way through 100, I felt women all around me. I embraced my past and accepted an unknown future. I felt supported. A universal language was spoken...the language of a woman."
From a place of surrender
Her truth exposed.
The flawed and vulnerable pit of her pain
and beauty.
Naked and blind she feels them
all around her.
Silently carrying her through the darkness
with love.
Her mothers, sisters, her daughters
Cheer her towards truth.
Me too, baby, Me too
There's light.
Without a single word
And no need for explanation
She sees her world in hers
And her world in hers
And her world in hers
Poem By: Lucy Boland
The Confetti Collection is about the pursuit of happiness. The awareness around the effort it takes to focus on positive thoughts in a world that often magnifies a fearful voice is profound. While it feels uncomfortable for me to ignore war, politics and equality it is my intention with this particular body of work. To put forth the radical notion, that the changes we make in love are more powerful than the changes we make in fear. My hope is that these paintings inspire a happy thought or lighten the mood in another human. My wildest dreams are that those positive thoughts ignite a collective energy of healing and inclusion in the world we live in today.
The patchwork heart is my interpretation of Introspection.
They are cut-up paintings given new life through connection, love and generational wisdom. Craving a new layer to my process, I worked off and on through this series with my grandmother who is also a life long maker and artist. Through our time together, I was able to share the most vulnerable stages of my process and ask for help. I picked up far more than simple seamstress skills as I learned a much deeper family history of women creators who have used their work as a model of care taking and love giving and, ultimately self healing. I unknowingly left my comfort zone and completely immersed myself in hers, intertwining her creativity through quilting and sewing with my love for painting and exploration.
The patchwork heart is the window behind the soul. The center of our innermost being. It’s the sum of the broken pieces of our unique stories woven together imperfectly to make up our most authentic self. The patchwork heart is the cycle of heartbreak and healing that no human can escape. The brave are the ones who choose to love again and again. The Patchwork Heart is the connective tissue in our collective consciousness that allows compassion to rise.
The patchwork heart is my interpretation of Introspection.
They are cut-up paintings given new life through connection, love and generational wisdom. Craving a new layer to my process, I worked off and on through this series with my grandmother who is also a life long maker and artist. Through our time together, I was able to share the most vulnerable stages of my process and ask for help. I picked up far more than simple seamstress skills as I learned a much deeper family history of women creators who have used their work as a model of care taking and love giving and, ultimately self healing. I unknowingly left my comfort zone and completely immersed myself in hers, intertwining her creativity through quilting and sewing with my love for painting and exploration.
The patchwork heart is the window behind the soul. The center of our innermost being. It’s the sum of the broken pieces of our unique stories woven together imperfectly to make up our most authentic self. The patchwork heart is the cycle of heartbreak and healing that no human can escape. The brave are the ones who choose to love again and again. The Patchwork Heart is the connective tissue in our collective consciousness that allows compassion to rise.
This collection of painterly sketches directly confronts sexuality and empowerment through a divinely feminine lens in the heart of the south. The entire collection was commissioned by the owners of The Honey Hive, a late night, elevated Desserterie located on King Street in Charleston South Carolina. Sandra Cannon of Sandra Canon Interiors, curated the final collection that now hangs in their flagship restaurant.
the collection is an original painting sitting in their flagship restaurant designed by Sandra Cannon Interiors on King Street in Charleston, SC.
