HOLDING
June 2020
24 works on paper
HOLDING SERIES - JUNE 2020
"At the beginning of lockdown, I wanted to create beautiful landscapes and escape inside my head. Now, months on, I'm in limbo. Actually, I've been feeling that I am neither coming nor going - I have my grown-up son at home - he's autistic and it's hard to help him understand things. My frustration and feelings of being trapped may well echo his feelings, though he can never express any of this to me. Inbetween all this worry, I've been following my hand and heart as always, creating the pieces you see here - triggered by just that sense of being contained, hanging on and being in limbo. I call these 'Holding' pieces. The 'holding' motif refers to the inner world of my son, held in by his autism, but also it refers to the idea of being held in confinement by this virus. He cannot go out. He will not go out. He stays in his room and rarely ventures out even into the garden. In these paintings, the colours are in harmony, but the lines enclose, repeat or break out of confinement, expressing my son's insulated mind and my aching wish to hold, protect and at the same time free him." Lesley Birch 2020
These artworks were part of the #artistsupportpledge and 10% of sales went to The National Autistic Society. Thank you for your support.
NB ALL pieces have now sold
"At the beginning of lockdown, I wanted to create beautiful landscapes and escape inside my head. Now, months on, I'm in limbo. Actually, I've been feeling that I am neither coming nor going - I have my grown-up son at home - he's autistic and it's hard to help him understand things. My frustration and feelings of being trapped may well echo his feelings, though he can never express any of this to me. Inbetween all this worry, I've been following my hand and heart as always, creating the pieces you see here - triggered by just that sense of being contained, hanging on and being in limbo. I call these 'Holding' pieces. The 'holding' motif refers to the inner world of my son, held in by his autism, but also it refers to the idea of being held in confinement by this virus. He cannot go out. He will not go out. He stays in his room and rarely ventures out even into the garden. In these paintings, the colours are in harmony, but the lines enclose, repeat or break out of confinement, expressing my son's insulated mind and my aching wish to hold, protect and at the same time free him." Lesley Birch 2020
These artworks were part of the #artistsupportpledge and 10% of sales went to The National Autistic Society. Thank you for your support.
NB ALL pieces have now sold
'Tangled Within' - was selected for the exhibition 'Reflections' on artists' responses/experiences of the pandemic - Southwest Academy of Fine and Applied Arts 2020
D. aged 11
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