The Language of Love
From 2013–2015 I worked on a series exploring the ‘language of love’ as it is expressed through phrases that have entered the vernacular of the English language, juxtaposing these idioms with visual representations, particularly through the use of the common heart shape.
Often romantic love can prove to be fleeting – flimsy even, for all its fancy, grandiose expressions. This fragility is expressed through the use of antique paper backed onto muslin: pages from antique and secondhand books, magazines and newspapers and other random ephemera.
Sometimes the words of the printed pages are combined with the artwork itself to amusing and occasionally poignant effect.
These pages are painted and drawn on in ink, acrylic, oil pastel and conté; printed using oil of wintergreen transfers; torn up and sewn back together with cotton and rayon thread and embroidered in shades of red, pink, black, grey and blue; collaged with red tin foil; and had red flocking applied.
The Mended Heart
The Hopeless Romantic
Love Pirate
Her Heart Was Torn to Pieces
Her Heart Was in Shreds
Game of Love (Nobody Wins)
Love Hurts (unfinished)
Time Heals (unfinished)
Tomorrow is Forever?
Tomorrow is Not Forever
Fountain of Love
Bleeding Heart
Checkered Hearts
Romance is Dead
Hollow Heart
Cross My Heart
Death by a Thousand Kisses
Love Lies Bleeding (unfinished)
Love Ends I
Love Ends II
He Captured Her Heart
You Do Not See Me
You Kept Walking Past Me
Heart in Mouth
Heart at Your Feet
Heart in Hand
She Shed Tears I
She Shed Tears II
She Shed Tears III
She Shed Tears IV
She Shed Tears V
He Threw Her Heart Away
He Squeezed Out Every Last Drop
She Loves Me
He Loves Me Not
Cross My Heart, Hope to Die
Cross Your Heart, Say Goodbye
My Heart Skips
Your Heart Sets
A Fairytale Romance
Love/Hate
The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
Crossover
Tell Me
No Lies
You Belong to Me
A Short Story About Love: There is No One But You
A Short Story About Love: Betrayal
A Short Story About Love: Crushed
A Short Story About Love: No Absolution
Wife
Husband