Goddesses
Inspired to create this series of four images through my continuing fascination, admiration and constantly changing relationship to women, viewed through the prism of the birth of my own children.
Witnessing my partner and many of my close friends go through pregnancy and in my partners case, birthing process, has put a very different slant on how I now view women. I was compelled to visualise and pay tribute in some way to what it is about womankind that remains so alluring and fascinating, yet still so very contradictory and mysterious to me.
Using the names and mythologies of four ancient Greek Goddesses, I decided to try and create homages in four parts- each representing various aspects and nature of women through the Goddesses mythologies I have chosen.
Available to purchase as a limited edition of 30 each, A1 sized giclee prints on 310 gsm hahnemuhle archival stock.
Signed and numbered individually.
 thetisThetis: Goddess of the Sea As the Oceans of the world gave birth to life on earth, Thetis is the representation of the mother goddess; creator, nourisher, protector, yet also potentially, destroyer. I have imagined her with a helmet made from a turtle’s skull with scorpion-fish headdress representing both the benign and deadly aspects of the sea’s character. Her breathtaking power and beauty coupled with the capricious nature to change moods in an instant. |  athenaAthena : Goddess of War and Wisdom Two directly opposed notions, something perhaps only a man would have bestowed upon a single figure. She symbolises the destructive capability of both knowledge and power in the wrong hands suggesting maybe, that left in the care of women, the world be better served and better taken care of. The helmet of an owl’s skull with flies wings depicting the wisdom of one side of her character and symbolisng death brought about by war on the other. |  artemisArtemis : Goddess of the Hunt A provider at any cost, for her family. Capable and selfless. Determined, skillful, ruthless and wily. Her headgear of a ram’s horns on a helmet made form a jaguar’s skull, representing both hunter and prey aspects of the hunt- something true of today’s modern, emancipated women in society where so often will find themselves on equal footing to men. |
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 hecateHecate. A mysterious goddess who was said to hold power as a denizen of the underworld. I have elected to use Hecate to represent the interface between life on earth, and our ultimate destiny. A conduit guide for the demise of our earthly presence through to wherever or whatever we choose to believe thereafter. |