I grew up with my father interested in quantum physics, space and black holes. My mother always wanted to make the house beautiful, by obsessively cooking, cleaning and displaying fresh flowers. As a child, I would spend hours watching things, from birds and insects in the garden to fish displayed in the shopping centres. Now as a mother myself, I feel like I’ve experienced this time-travel cyclical loop. I’m repeating my parent’s interests which reminds and connects me to the memories of being small. 

My work is about representing these family roles through the use of florals, animals and objects. Flowers in vases represent both my mother and myself, whilst they are painted surrounded by my children’s objects, symbolically replacing them, whilst also referencing being a child myself. There is a lovely haunting feeling of nostalgia when my children do something I used to and I’m trying to capture that essence.