This collection is largely self-referential, working as a conversation between poetry, memory and self-portrait to create symbolic compositions that reconcile and eternalise significant female relationships.   The manipulation of the surface sludge of paint and pastel through scoring and scratching creates contours which make these bodies move.  The paintings present female relationships as spectacular and conflictual and profoundly connected by love and shared experience. These faces wear specialised expressions of personal conflict and contradiction, celebrating the contemporaneous duality of all feelings in us; suspicion coexists alongside acceptance and anger can be balanced in tenderness. We are made up of all kinds of incoherent things and so are these paintings. The textural dimension of the work tries to contribute to this duality by physically working conflict into the painting, through the rigid and fluid acts of pressure that demonstrate we are as much one feeling as we are its opposite.