It wouldn’t be until late 2017 that the artist was able to return to her work after experiencing a respite from an disease that had kept from her painting for nearly 15 years. Working through pain, spasm and much lessoned seizures her times never been wasted as she worked on canvases she had only ever been able to make as preliminary sketches, some sketches she’d created on her iPhone at home and in hospital beds.

In these recent oil paintings by the artist there is distinct play on opposites, light verses dark, day verses night, negative verses positive and lines which were black become white. She is showing us what happens when our lives are flipped by a flick of a switch which sends electricity as a shock within her brain. How easily reality can be changed and how susceptible our entire being becomes.

The artists return to her studio birthing her new imagery, began in the freezing cold of January 2017, after a grand mal seizure lasting more than 45 minutes. On that day after that one particular grand seizure, she came back into this world after being gone so long, with no long or short-term memory, only knowing her language of communication was 2-dimensional. To know knowledge and bring about clarity, she scrambled searching for a scrap of watercolor paper, holding a HB pencil and her Winsor & Newton watercolor pan sets in her hands she painted her first watercolors she’d created in 15 years.